Paul Hoffmann (politician, 1863)

Paul Hoffmann (born October 12, 1863 in Freiberg , † March 28, 1928 in Hamburg ) was a German shoemaker and seaman, who later became a Hamburg parliamentarian and senator ( SPD ).

Life

Paul Hoffmann's grave

Born out of wedlock, Hoffmann attended school in Tharandt before successfully completing an apprenticeship as a shoemaker . At the end of the seventies Hoffmann went on a hike and settled in Hamburg in 1881. Since he could not find a job in his learned profession, he went to sea as a coal trimmer and ship heater . Hoffmann joined the social democracy in 1884. From 1892 he ran a restaurant and tavern on Hafenstrasse in St. Pauli and was chairman of the heater and trimmer association. He spoke out against the calling of the Hamburg dockworkers strike in 1896/97 . 1907 he became clerk to the printing Auer & Co. , which belonged to the SPD and gave his inn. Paul Hoffmann found his final resting place in the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf (grid square K 12).

Political career

Hoffmann was one of the leading SPD members in Hamburg and, alongside Gustav Stengele and Paul Weinheber , he had been on the board of the Social Democratic constituency committee for Reichstag constituency 2 since the mid-1990s. Thanks to their activities, this constituency fell to Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz . In 1907 Hoffmann was elected to the Hamburg parliament, to which he belonged until 1924. There he was the main spokesman for the SPD alongside Otto Stolten .

On March 28, 1919, Hoffmann was elected to the Hamburg Senate , to which he was a member until his retirement on March 18, 1925. In the Senate, Hoffmann mainly represented the welfare and youth departments. In doing so, he significantly reformed the welfare system in Hamburg.

literature

• Hoffmann, Paul. In: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 (short form on the Internet as a biography of Paul Hoffmann . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876-1933 (BIOSOP) ).
• Angela Graf: Hoffmann, Paul . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 158-159 .

Web links

• biography
• Paul Hoffmann's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)