Karl Hofmann (resistance fighter)

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Karl Hofmann (born August 22, 1901 in Uffeln , † January 9, 1959 near Bielefeld ) was a German resistance fighter and civil servant .

Life

Karl Hofmann moved with his family to Hanover during the time of the German Empire and as a child in 1914 , where he completed an apprenticeship as a brewer . He later worked as an accountant at Continental AG .

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Karl Hofmann joined the SPD and later led the International Socialist Fighting League (ISK) founded by Leonard Nelson as state chairman.

In the seizure of power by the National Socialists Karl Hofmann 1933 was unemployed for years, until 1939 - also the year of the beginning of the Second World War - when he in the coal merchant Wesemann in Ricklingen finally found employment.

In the resistance to the National Socialists, Karl Hofmann was in contact with Otto Brenner and Albin Karl, among others .

After the end of the war, Hofmann played a key role in denazification in Lower Saxony . From February 1947 to 1950 he held the office of State Commissioner for Denazification. In 1950 he became Ministerialrat in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior , took over the management of the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 1953 and was most recently promoted to Ministerial Director .

Karl Hofmann was married to Margarete Hofmann . He died in 1959 while traveling near the city of Bielefeld. He was buried in the Ricklingen city cemetery.

Karl Hofmann Way

The Karl-Hofmann-Weg , which was laid out in Wettbergen in 1984, honors the resistance fighter and ministerial director with its name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Klaus Mlynek : HOFMANN, (1) Karl. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 175; online through google books
  2. ↑ Teresa Nentwig (edit.): The cabinet minutes of the Hanoverian and Lower Saxony state government 1946 to 1951. 2 vols. (= Series of publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. 269). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2012, p. 48, 1574.
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Karl-Hofmann-Weg , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 138
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Uffels
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1959
Place of death near Bielefeld