Klaus Hoffmann (civil servant)
Klaus Hoffmann (born April 13, 1926 in Essen ; † September 23, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German administrative officer and long-time president of the Federal Insurance Agency for Salaried Employees (BfA).
Life
Klaus Hoffmann came from a mining family and grew up in the Katernberg district of Essen . He did military service, was taken prisoner and after 1945 studied law at the University of Mainz , which he completed with the Assessor exam.
Hoffmann began his professional career in 1954 with what was then the Ruhrknappschaft in Bochum, where he was appointed to the management in 1961. In addition, in 1956 he was one of the co-founders of the Working Group to Combat Cancer and held the post of executive board member there.
In 1968 Hoffmann was elected to the management of the BfA, where he initially took over the management of the areas of finance and assets as well as rehabilitation. From March 1973 to September 1988 he served as its president. During his tenure, Hoffmann was one of the initiators of the introduction of follow-up rehabilitation and was involved in the pension reforms in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Hoffmann retired on September 30, 1988. He died on September 23, 2015 at the age of 89 in Berlin and was buried on October 15, 2015 at the Zehlendorf cemetery next to his wife Ursula, who had died exactly two years earlier to the day (grave field 013-102).
Awards
- Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1983)
- Bavarian Order of Merit (1987)
- Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1988)
- Medal of Merit of the German Pension Insurance
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Short biography on the website of the Bavarian Order of Merit , accessed on August 7, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative officer and BfA president |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd September 2015 |
| Place of death | Berlin |