Martin Hoffmann (engineer)
Martin Hoffmann (born February 1, 1930 in Oederan , Free State of Saxony ; † June 2, 2018 ) was a German victim of Stalinism and an author of non-fiction .
In 1949 Hoffmann joined the LDPD . He studied from 1950 to 1951 at the Mittweida engineering school . There he founded a human rights group in 1950 and resisted human rights violations in the GDR . From the spring of 1950 there were contacts with the combat group against inhumanity . Thereupon he was arrested by the Stasi on October 24, 1951 and extradited to the Soviet military administration in Germany . In 1952 the Soviet military tribunal in Dresden sentenced him to three times 25 years of forced labor for "anti-Soviet attacks" . He had to do this in the coal mine of the Vorkuta Gulag under a more stringent regime (shaft 40). He was not allowed to have any contact with family members. In 1955 he was able to return home due to Konrad Adenauer's negotiations . In 1956 Hoffmann fled to Karlsruhe via West Berlin . There he obtained a diploma in communications engineering . Until his retirement, Hoffmann worked as a technical manager and production engineer at a state insurance company .
In 1996, the Moscow Military Prosecutor rehabilitated Hoffmann. In 2001 he founded a private contemporary witness museum in Karlsruhe, and in 2002 another in his birthplace Oederan. Both collections consist “essentially of Hoffmann's memorabilia”. 2007 took place its graduation to the Dr. phil at the University of Karlsruhe .
Martin Hoffmann was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his commitment in 2008 .
literature
- Wladislaw Hedeler , Horst Hennig (eds.): Black pyramids, red slaves. The strike in Vorkuta in the summer of 1953 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86583-177-4 . Biographical information there p. 262.
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Martin Hoffmann - curriculum vitae
- Gulag contemporary witness recalls the uprising of June 17 , Die Welt (online) of June 17, 2014 (accessed October 24, 2015).
- Jutta Herzberg: From Mittweida to Vorkuta , presentation of Hoffmann's life as part of a proseminar at the Chair of Modern and Eastern European History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (accessed on October 24, 2015).
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice , in: Freie Presse , Flöha edition of June 9, 2018.
- ↑ Annette Kaminsky (Ed.): Places of Remembrance: Memorial signs, memorials and museums on the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR . 2nd revised and expanded edition, Ch. Links Verlag, 2007, p. 29 f and p. 359 .
- ↑ Personal details on the website of the city of Karlsruhe
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German victim of Stalinism and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oederan , Free State of Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd June 2018 |