Hermione Hoffmann

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Hermine Hoffmann (born July 11, 1857 in Munich , † October 22, 1945 in Munich-Solln ) was a patroness and personal admirer of Adolf Hitler . In the Völkischer Beobachter she was dubbed "Frau Director Hoffmann".

Relationship with Adolf Hitler

Hermine Hoffmann had been widowed since 1907. During the First World War , many women volunteered to sponsor soldiers in the field, who provided them with clothes, homemade stockings or food. Hoffmann was assigned Private Adolf Hitler. A close friendship developed from the sponsorship that lasted until 1945. Hermine Hoffmann became an important patroness and ardent personal admirer of Hitler.

Membership in the DAP or NSDAP

Hermine Hoffmann quickly found a liking to the German Workers 'Party (DAP) through Hitler , which was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) on February 24, 1920 . She was an early partisan and, according to her own account, joined the DAP with the "old No. 10". It can be proven that Hoffmann was a party member as early as the end of 1919 and she was also an ardent supporter of the party's “noble thoughts”. She was accepted into the NSDAP personally by Hitler with a handshake with the party number 584. Since the beginning of the 1920s he stayed with her in Solln and had lunch with her. She took care of his cloakroom and also supported him financially. During the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch in 1923, she made her apartment in Solln available to the party and its members. Even after the Hitler putsch , when Hitler was imprisoned in the Hitler cell in Landsberg am Lech , she visited him regularly, as can be seen from the prison files.

Hoffmann's role after the Hitler coup

After Hitler was released from imprisonment in Landsberg am Lech , Hoffmann remained loyal to him. She was a co-founder of the NSDAP local group Solln and the NS women in Solln. In addition, she was the founder of the NSDAP women's association Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria . On July 11, 1933, she was appointed honorary chairman of the National Socialist Women's Association. Hitler regularly visited Hoffmann personally, especially on her birthdays, or had her congratulations delivered. She was invited to all NSDAP events in Munich, in which she often participated. On January 2, 1943, Hoffmann received the NSDAP's golden party badge . She survived Hitler and died at the age of 88 on October 22, 1945 in Munich-Solln.

reception

The German historian Susanne Meinl sees Hoffmann as one of the five Munich “old fighters” who financially and personally supported Adolf Hitler on the way to the top. In addition to Elisabeth von Ardenne and Hermine Hoffmann as two older women who often appear in the first membership lists of the DAP and the NSDAP, she also sees Hildegard Königsbauer , Adelheid Klein and Maria Wutz in this series . From the end of the 1920s, Adolf Hitler frequented the Munich salons of Helene Bechstein and Elsa Bruckmann, and since then has no longer needed Hoffmann's financial support. Nevertheless, he continued to count her among his closest personal friends and visited her regularly. For Adolf Hitler - his mother Klara Hitler had died on 21 December 1907 - was Hermine Hoffmann probably a kind of "surrogate mother," which is also supported by the fact that they in the vernacular as Hitler's mother , Hitler's mom or Hitler Mutterl referred has been. According to reports from contemporary witnesses , Adolf Hitler had to listen to Hermine Hoffmann's sermons from time to time.

literature

  • Anton Joachimsthaler : Hitler's List - A Document of Personal Relationships . Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2328-4 .
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
  • Geert Mak : In Europe , 2004; German: 2005 In Europe. A Journey Through the 20th Century , Settlers, ISBN 3-88680-826-2 .
  • James Pool & Suzanne Pool: How do you finance Hitler? Nieuwe en onthullende feiten over de secret geldschieters van het Derde Rijk , Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jan Friedmann: Fans on the Feldherrenhügel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 2010, p. 50 ( online - June 21, 2010 ).
  2. ^ Brigitte Zuber: National Socialism and Biography - Conference Report. In: hsozkult.de. September 6, 2013, accessed October 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Hermione
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German patroness of Adolf Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1945
Place of death Munich-Solln