Johannes Hoffmann (politician, 1889)

Johannes Hoffmann (born September 5, 1889 in Hönningen , † February 25, 1960 in Engelskirchen ) was a German politician of the Center Party .

Life

Hoffmann studied agriculture at the universities in Bonn and Berlin from 1914 to 1918 and was managing director of the Rheinische Bauernvereine from 1918 to 1921. From 1921 to 1945 he was director of the agricultural school in Lindlar and then until 1948 consultant for the agricultural school system at the senior executive and agricultural office in Bonn.

politics

Hoffmann was already a member of the center during the Weimar Republic , and he helped to rebuild it after the Second World War . In 1923 he took over the local chairmanship of the center in Lindlar and was also deputy district chairman. From 1926 to 1933 and again from 1946 he was a member of the Wipperfürth district and later of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district in Bergisch Gladbach. In 1945/46 he was mayor of Lindlar and since 1947 chairman of the center district. On December 14, 1949, he replaced Bernhard Reismann , who had been elected to the Bundestag, in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, to which he belonged until June 17, 1950. The Landtag elected him a member of the first Federal Assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President in 1949 . On August 7, 1951, after the death of Wilhelm Hamacher, he entered the German Bundestag and was a member of the Federal Parliament until the end of the first electoral term .

Web links

• Johannes Hoffmann (politician, 1889) at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament