Hermann Hoffmann (judge)

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Hermann Hoffmann (born July 3, 1880 in Frauendorf , Randow district , † October 17, 1945 in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg ) was a German judge .

Life

Hoffmann was the son of a superintendent . He passed the first state law examination in 1902 with the grade “good”, the second in 1908 with “good”. He was magistrate at the district court of Stettin on New Year's Day 1910. He took part in the First World War as captain of the reserve.

In 1922 Hoffmann was promoted to regional court director at the regional court in Stettin. In February and March 1929 he chaired the highly acclaimed 2nd Stettin fememuride trial against Edmund Heines and seven other defendants for the murder of the farm laborer Willi Schmidt in July 1920.

In mid-July 1931 Hoffmann came to the Reichsgericht as an unskilled worker . In mid-August 1932 he was appointed Reich Judge. He was active in the 2nd , 5th and 1st criminal senate.

At the end of the war, Hoffmann was arrested by the NKVD in 1945 . He died in the same year in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg .

Memberships

Honors

  • April 20, 1938 Silver Medal of Honor
  • October 9, 1939 Gold Medal of Honor

Fonts

  • Approval in the Civil Code , Greifswald 1903. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933-1945) . East Berlin 1971, p. 274.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe , Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 97, ISBN 9783000269998
  2. ↑ August Schäfer : The great dying in the Reichsgericht , DRiZ 1957, p. 249.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauendorf
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1945
Place of death Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg