Joachim Hoffmann (trade unionist)

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Joachim Hoffmann (born September 15, 1922 in Halle (Saale) ; died February 28, 2002 in Berlin ) was an FDGB functionary.

Life

Joachim Hoffmann attended elementary school and high school in his hometown. During the Second World War he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht from 1940 to 1945 . He took part in the attack on the Soviet Union as a corporal . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. He was interned there until 1949 and attended the anti-fasc school in 2041 .

He returned to Berlin in 1949 and from 1950 was an employee of the Federal Executive of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). Hoffmann became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and was temporarily editor-in-chief of the newspaper Die Arbeit. Union magazine for theory and practice and personal assistant to FDGB chairman Herbert Warnke . In March 1963 he received his doctorate as Dr. oec. at the University of Leipzig . In 1971 he was expelled from the federal executive committee of the FDGB.

From 1971 to 1986 he was a research assistant at the "Institute for Politics and Economics", a. a. also for Herbert Häber, who later became a member of the Politburo .

Hoffmann was committed to the preservation of the socialist memorial at the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery . He was a founding member of the “Support Group Memorial Site of the German Workers' Movement Berlin-Friedrichsfelde e. V. “in October 2002.

Joachim Hoffmann was buried in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery. One of the funeral orators was the district mayor of Lichtenberg Wolfram Friedersdorff ( Die Linke ).

Fonts

  • First experiences of the permanent production consultations in the socialist companies . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1959.
  • Joachim Hoffmann, Günter Pöggel: Theses for the dissertation "The development of trade union leadership to organize the growing mass initiative in the comprehensive construction of socialism". FDGB, Berlin 1963.
  • The development of union leadership to organize the growing mass initiative in the comprehensive building of socialism . Leipzig 1963. (Dissertation in Economics, March 14, 1963)
  • Joachim Hoffmann, Heinz Brühl, Karl-Heinz Rüger: Metal workers against monopolies. On the strike fight of West German metal workers in spring 1963 . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1963.
  • May 2, 1933. Facts and Lessons . (Elaborated by employees of the FDGB federal executive board under the direction of Dr. Joachim Hoffmann and Heinz Brühl). Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1963.
  • Johanna Töpfer , Joachim Hoffmann: West German trade unions. Class organization or "order factor"? Staatsverlag der GDR, Berlin 1967 (= politics current)
  • Joachim Hoffmann, Otto Schröder, Kurt Voigtlander: Hot autumn. Strike fights among West German workers in September 1969 . With a foreword by Adolf Deter . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1968.
  • Economic relations between socialist and capitalist countries in the struggle for the implementation of the peaceful coexistence of states with different social systems. (Elaborated on the basis of materials from the Institute for International Politics and Economics of the GDR) . Urania, Leipzig 1978 (= series of publications for the speaker)
  • November Revolution in Berlin - March fighting in Lichtenberg . Berlin 1989.
  • In your Friedrichsfelde rests ... The Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde in German history . Edited by the Berlin Association of Former Participants in the Anti-Fascist Resistance, Victims of the Nazi Regime and Survivors (BVVdN) e. V. BVVdN eV, Berlin 1996.
  • The January strike . In: Berlin Calendar 1998 . Verlag Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, 1998, pp. 42–43, ISBN 3-7759-0417-4 .
  • Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. A German national cemetery - cultural and historical travel guide . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00959-2

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , February 28, 2007.
  2. ↑ Ed. Federal Board of the Free German Trade Union Confederation. Verlag Tribüne Berlin 1.1948 - 4.1950.
  3. ↑ The development of trade union leadership to organize the growing mass initiative in the comprehensive construction of socialism .
  4. ↑ Obituary notice of his wife Marianne Hoffmann. In: Berliner Zeitung of May 18, 2002.
  5. ↑ Joachim Pampel: Joachim Hoffmann - In your Friedrichsfelde rests ... In: Berlinische Monatsschrift ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 1997, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 128 ( luise-berlin.de - review).
  6. ↑ The author's biography on p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist (FDGB) and co-founder of the support group Berlin-Friedrichsfelde
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2002
Place of death Berlin