Paul Hoffmann (politician, 1867)

Paul Hoffmann (born November 4, 1867 in Borschen , Steinau district ; † June 17, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German politician (SPD, KPD) and since 1919 a member of the Prussian state assembly as well as a member of the state parliament in all four subsequent Weimar parliaments Republic .

Life

Hoffmann was a trained bricklayer and came to Berlin as a young man, where he worked as a health insurance employee. He became a member of the SPD and was reprimanded several times for leading positions in the German Empire. In 1911 he opened an inn, which he ran until 1918, and was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives in 1913 for the SPD in the constituency of Berlin 5 . During the war he moved to the USPD . From November 1918 to January 1919 Paul Hoffmann was an alderman for public works in the Prussian government and was elected to the constituent Prussian state assembly for the USPD in 1919 . As a delegate at the Leipzig USPD party congress in early March 1919 , he represented the leftist tendency in the USPD. With the left USPD he came to the KPD at the end of 1920 . He represented the KPD without interruption from 1921 to 1933 in the four Weimar legislative periods in the Prussian state parliament . In violent riots on March 20, 1927, Hoffmann was seriously injured when, on a train from Jüterbog to Berlin, the communist shawm group he was accompanying was mistreated with lances and pistols by an NSDAP roll-up detachment boarding in Trebbin . Additional NSDAP supporters penetrated the Lichterfelde-Ost train station . In the events that had been incited by Joseph Goebbels in Trebbin , who had been appointed Gauleiter of Berlin a few months earlier , five people were seriously injured without the police intervening. Hoffmann suffered serious head injuries. Despite his advanced age, he was imprisoned for a long time during the Nazi dictatorship. Paul Hoffmann died on June 17, 1945 in Berlin.

literature

Hoffmann, Paul . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Individual evidence

^ Short biography Hoffmanns in Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 187 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
^ Bernhard Sauer quoted in Goebbels "Rabauken". On the history of the SA in Berlin-Brandenburg (PDF; 1.7 MB) on page 9 the historian Martin Broszat , with a facsimile of the party's hectic NSDAP reporting (Author: Reinhold Muchow from the so-called Propaganda Cell of the NSDAP, local group Berlin - (the newly established) Neukölln Section)

personal data
SURNAME	Hoffmann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politicians (SPD, USPD, DKP)
DATE OF BIRTH	November 4, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Borschen , Steinau district
DATE OF DEATH	June 17, 1945
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Short biography Hoffmanns in Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 187 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)

[2] Bernhard Sauer quoted in Goebbels "Rabauken". On the history of the SA in Berlin-Brandenburg (PDF; 1.7 MB) on page 9 the historian Martin Broszat , with a facsimile of the party's hectic NSDAP reporting (Author: Reinhold Muchow from the so-called Propaganda Cell of the NSDAP, local group Berlin - (the newly established) Neukölln Section)