Karl Georg Hoffmann

Karl Georg Hoffmann (born October 14, 1796 in Ludwigsburg , † September 11, 1865 in Karlsruhe ) was a Baden civil servant and politician.

Career

Hoffmann grew up in Amorbach , Boxberg and Mannheim and studied camera studies at the University of Heidelberg , where he became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . After passing the state examination, he was accepted into the Baden state service as a district intern in Wertheim in 1823. In 1824 he came to Constance in the same position and was promoted to district assessor there in 1825. In 1826 he was appointed finance councilor at the tax office and in 1834 he was appointed government councilor in Constance. In 1838 he came to Karlsruhe to the head office of hydraulic engineering and road construction as well as to the newly established railway construction department.

Political activity

Since 1831 Hoffmann was a liberal member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly . From 1831 to 1841 he exercised the mandate for Durlach . In the meetings he dealt mainly with questions of railway construction and state finances.

Because of his political activities in 1843 in the course of the so-called holiday dispute with the Blittersdorf government, he was transferred to prison . The government fought against civil servants with a liberal disposition by refusing them the necessary leave to attend the state parliament sessions and moving them as far away as possible from the royal seat of Karlsruhe. Hoffmann was therefore sent to Pfullendorf as the principal collector . However, as early as 1844 the political waves had smoothed out and Hoffmann was able to go to the Zollverein in Berlin as an authorized representative after a brilliantly won state election, in which he received a new mandate for the Second Chamber from the electors of the city of Pforzheim . In this position he was promoted to the secret government council.

After a March government was formed in Baden due to the events of the revolution of 1848 , Hoffmann stepped on March 9, 1848 as a State Councilor and new head of the Ministry of Finance to head the Hoffmann government named after him . In fact, he assumed the role of President of the State Ministry. Hoffmann's older brother Friedrich von Hoffmann was Baden's War Minister in the same cabinet. The fifteen months of his reign were dominated by the eventful events of the Baden Revolution . When the revolutionary situation came to a head in May 1849, the government felt compelled to flee the country. In Frankfurt , Hoffmann and his ministerial colleagues were removed from office by the Grand Duke on June 3, 1849. Hoffmann then retired, but was re-elected to the state parliament in 1850 by the Mannheim electors, to which he belonged until 1852. Almost at the same time, his brother Friedrich Hoffmann became a member of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

Withdrawal from politics

After leaving politics in 1852, Hoffmann withdrew completely into private life. He was married and now devoted himself increasingly to the education and training of his children. Hoffmann belonged to the Protestant Church.

literature

• Baden biographies . Volume 1, Heidelberg 1875, pp. 388-389

Individual evidence

1. ^ Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 93
2. ^ Badische Biographien , Volume 1, Heidelberg 1875, p. 389 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 170.