Konrad Hoffmann (politician, 1904)

Konrad Hoffmann (born April 3, 1904 in Berlin , † August 10, 1989 in Hamburg ) was a politician of the SPD and a member of the Appointed Hamburg Citizenship .

Conrad Hoffmann was before the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933 in a management position in the banking business. As a result of the change in political events, he was robbed of his livelihood by the new rulers, as his wife Elsbeth was Jewish. From 1939 to 1941 he was involved as a soldier in World War II , but was then classified as unfit for military service due to the Nuremberg Race Laws . As a prisoner he was under Gestapo supervision .

After the war, Hoffmann was appointed to the “Appointed Hamburg Citizenship ” by the British occupation authorities in July 1946 . At first he was part of the non-party faction and then later switched to the SPD. This was followed by seven years of membership in the deputation of the Ministry of Economics and Transport.

Hoffmann was involved in the emergency community of those affected by the Nuremberg Laws and played a major role in the repatriation of the surviving Hamburg residents from the Theresienstadt concentration camp . He was also involved in founding various aid organizations for the reconstruction of Hamburg and was a member of the board of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . He was a member of the German-Israeli Society and took on the role of secretary when the predecessor organization Pro Israel was founded in 1961 .

He was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star and a high French Order of Merit.

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• New Hamburg. Evidence of the reconstruction of the Hanseatic city. Published by Rita Bake , Hamburg 2005.
• Obituary in the evening paper

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KAS
2. ^ Website of the German-Israeli Society: The Difficult Beginning ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )