Matthias Hoffmann (functionary)

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Matthias "Matz" Hoffmann (born October 25, 1891 in Gyertyámos ( German  Gertianosch ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † September 27, 1957 in Vohburg an der Donau ) was a German doctor , local researcher and the first federal chairman of the Banat Swabian country team from 1947 to 1953.

Life

Matthias Hoffmann was the second child of the businessman Nikolaus Hoffmann and his wife Maria, née Ruß. From 1898 to 1903 he attended elementary school in his home town. From 1903 to 1911 he was a student at the secondary school in Szegedin . Here he lived in the Szegediner Konvikt of the Gyertyámos community. After graduating from high school in 1911, he enrolled at the Medical School in Budapest and also studied Latin and Greek. After his first final exam in 1914 he enlisted as a one-year volunteer in the Austro-Hungarian Infantry Regiment "Erzherzog Rainer" no. 59 in Salzburg , and served on the Eastern Front of the First World War . In 1915 he ended up as a Russian prisoner of war in the camps of Ishim , Chita and Vladivostok , from where he was released at the turn of the year 1920/1921.

He returned to Budapest and resumed his medical studies there. Here he took his second and third Rigorosum in the years 1921–1922. From 1921 and 1940 he was chairman of the Gertianosch local group of the Catholic-conservative German-Swabian national community . From October 1922 to 1941 he practiced as a doctor in his home community, which after the Treaty of Trianon was now in the Kingdom of Romania and was called Cărpiniș . Hoffmann was from 1923 to 1935 secretary of the Association of Banat German Singers , his successor was Anton Valentin . For a few years he was secretary of the Semmelweis Medical Group Banat, founded in 1924 by his brother Nikolaus Hoffmann in Lovrin .

In 1938 Hoffmann presented a study of the ethnic composition of the marriages concluded by the German population in 32 Banat villages between 1901 and 1938. As a result, he was appointed " Gauwalter for Public Health" in the Banat for the period from 1939 to 1941 . In 1941 the doctor took part in the resettlement of Bessarabian Germans "Heim ins Reich" ; then he practiced from July 20, 1942 to June 14, 1943 in the Romanian occupied Bukovina . From 1943 to 1944 he taught health education at the educational institution Banatia in Timișoara, which at that time was under the National Socialist ethnic group leadership and had been renamed the Prinz-Eugen -Oberschule.

On September 17, 1944 he fled with his family and other Banat Swabians as part of the evacuation of the German ethnic group from the Banat before the advancing Red Army to Austria . From October 20, 1944 to February 1, 1945 he was active as a camp doctor in Neufeld an der Leitha in Burgenland . On February 5, 1945 he settled in Vohburg an der Donau as a general practitioner. He belonged to the Hartmannbund professional organization . Hoffmann was elected in 1947 as the first chairman of the newly founded country team of the Banat Swabians . In 1953 he resigned for health reasons and was made honorary chairman. Anton Valentin followed him in office.

Matthias Hoffmann died in 1957 of a heart attack. He was buried on September 30th of that year in the Vohburg cemetery.

Publications (selection)

  • Maintenance of hereditary health and hereditary capacity. In: Südostdeutsche daily newspaper Hermannstadt und Temeschburg, 243rd episode of October 18, 1942, p. 7.
  • Malaria risk. In: Banater Deutsche Zeitung of May 5, 1940, p. 10.
  • We are creating a German baby home. An exemplary nursing home. In: Banater Deutsche Zeitung of December 24, 1939, p. 5.
  • The health picture of a Banat Swabian community. In: Medical Journal, Volume 11, 1937, Issue 5, pp. 139–144.
  • As Matz Hoffmann: One hundred and fifty years of German Gertianosch, Banat, Romania: 1785–1935. Schwäbische Verlags – AG, Timișoara 1935, 368 pp.
  • What do most people in the Banat die of? A study. In: Schwäbischer Volkskalender 1930, chapter health care.
  • Infant care. What every mother should know In: Schwäbischer Volkskalender 1927, pp. 113–116.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Dr. med. Hoffmann Matthias. Doctor, local researcher. In: gertianosch.de from January 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ Hildrun Glass: Broken Neighborhood: The German-Jewish Relationship in Romania, 1918–1938. R. Oldenbourg, 1996, ISBN 3-48656-230-4 , p. 160.
  3. ↑ Peter-Dietmar Leber : 70 years of Landsmannschaft: the beginnings. In: Landsmannschaft der Banat Swabia from June 23, 2020.
  4. ^ The previous federal chairmen. In: Landsmannschaft der Banat Swabians, undated.
  5. ^ Klaus Popa : Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa. Entry Hoffmann Matz , p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Matz (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, local researcher and federal chairman of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Gyertyámos , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1957
Place of death Vohburg on the Danube