Max Hoff (mobster)

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Max "Boo Hoo" Hoff (* 1893 in Philadelphia ; † April 27, 1941 ibid) was an American boxing manager and mobster in Philadelphia, who can be attributed to the Kosher Nostra .

Life

Max Hoff was born in the south of Philadelphia to a poor Russian - Jewish immigrant family. He got his nickname Boo Boo or Boo Hoo because his mother always called him to dinner with the Hebrew word "bo" for "come".

After Hoff finished school, he worked as an employee in a tobacco store. In 1917 he got into gambling in a district of Philadelphia that is now known as "Society Hill". The venue disguised itself as a political club; only the highest stakes were allowed in betting.

During the US alcohol prohibition in particular , he was also active as a "bootlegger" (American: alcohol smuggler). 1927 - Hoff was now known as the "King of Bootleggers" in Philadelphia - Hoff took part in the "Atlantic City Conference" of the National Crime Syndicate . Hoff had close ties with the Kosher Nostras of New York City and Newark, New Jersey ; he is said to have been on friendly terms with Al Capone .

His leadership position in Philadelphia was taken from him by Harry Rosen , who was a member of the " Seven Group " (also known as the Big Seven ), allied with Waxey Gordon and Irving Blitz , who controlled alcohol smuggling on the entire east coast of the United States .

Boxing manager

Max Hoff had also got into the boxing business and by the late 1920s had one of the largest numbers of professional boxers in the United States. Hoff never had a champion under contract, but his boxers were often at the top of the rating lists. In 1928 he founded "Max Hoff Inc.", the first corporation ( GmbH ) in the boxing business.

In particular, his boxing stable included:

Decline

Hoff was arrested many times but never convicted. However, in 1933, the US tax authority, the IRS, collected a tax bill of $ 21,000. His house in Cobbs Creek Park was auctioned off; his car, which had a bullet hole, was sold due to backlog of parking space rent. Numerous other setbacks - all of his legal investments after the alcohol prohibition had ultimately turned out to be a flop - apparently wore down Hoff and he was found dead in his bed by his second wife. Due to an empty bottle with sleeping pills , a suicide could not be ruled out; however, an autopsy revealed heart failure as the cause of death.

Movie

literature

  • Robert A. Rockaway: Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel & Co. Life stories of Jewish gangsters in the USA. Konkret Literaturverlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-89458-170-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waxey Gordon ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on crimemagazine.com (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / crimemagazine.com
personal data
SURNAME Hoff, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boo Hoo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American boxing manager and mobster
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1941
Place of death Philadelphia