Hermann Hofmann (politician)

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Hermann Hofmann

Hermann Hofmann (born September 9, 1880 in Ommersheim ; † May 30, 1941 ibid) was a German teacher and politician ( center ).

Life

After attending the elementary school in Ommersheim , Hofmann, who was a Roman Catholic , completed the preparatory school in Blieskastel from 1893 to 1896 and then the teacher training college in Speyer for two years . After his first activities in Klingenmünster , Speyer and Pirmasens , he was appointed scheduled teacher in Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 1904. There he became a senior teacher at the Rhine School in 1915 . During the First World Warhe was a member of the local food supply commission. In 1933 he was discharged from school. From 1934 until his death in 1941 he lived in materially cramped conditions in his birthplace, Ommersheim. Hofmann was involved in the Catholic teachers' association of the Palatinate .

After Hofmann is Hermann Hofmann street named in Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

Political party

Hofmann belonged to the center and was chairman of the youth organization Windthorstbund in Ludwigshafen am Rhein for several years . Even after the Bavarian regional association became independent, the Palatinate was then part of Bavaria , as the Bavarian People's Party , he remained a center member and was a member of the party's entire board. In the 1920s he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the center in the Palatinate, of which he was chairman.

MP

From 1911 to 1933 Hofmann was a member of the city council of Ludwigshafen am Rhein . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament and from 1919 to 1933 a member of the National Assembly and then of the Reichstag . Although initially elected as a BVP MP in the Palatinate , he joined the center parliamentary group.

Publications

  • With the Palatine in the Banat , Aschendorff'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster in Westphalia 1930.

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