Hugo Stoffers

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Hugo Stoffers (born October 21, 1905 in Ahlen ; died May 17, 1983 in Beckum ) was a German social democrat and mayor and city ​​director of Ahlen in Westphalia .

Life

As a teenager, Hugo Stoffers became chairman of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) , where he also met his future wife Grete Seifert, who came from Dresden . Since 1928 he was a member of the SPD. Until the end of the Second World War , he worked initially as an accountant and later as managing director of the Steinhoff shoe factory in Ahlen.

Hugo Stoffers co-founded the TuS Ahlen in 1945 and became an honorary member of this association, just as he was an honorary member of the SuS Blau-Weiß Ahlen as a canoeist.

From 1948 to 1950 Hugo Stoffers was mayor of the city of Ahlen, which at that time had around 40,000 inhabitants, many of whom were refugees. He supported the young refugee Imo Moszkowicz when he returned to his hometown and found him a job in the city administration. From August 1, 1951 to 1963, he was city director of Ahlen.

Honors

  • The Hugo-Stoffers-Stift , an old people's home in Ahlen, is named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uwe Rennspiess: Beyond the railway. History of the Ahlen miners' colony and the Westphalia colliery. Klartext Verlag, 1989, ISBN 978-3-884743-40-9 .
  2. ↑ a b c Dieter and Mechthild Massin: Ahlen groundbreaking. 50 streets, paths and squares: portraits and stories. Anno Verlag, Rheinberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-939256-17-5
  3. ↑ Imo Moszkowicz : The graying morning. 3rd edition, LIT-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6754-4 , p. 168
personal data
SURNAME Stoffers, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democrat, mayor and city director of Ahlen
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Awls
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1983
Place of death Beckum