Paul Hoffmann (Administrative Lawyer)

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Paul Hoffmann (born December 17, 1900 in Berlin ; † December 11, 1973 there ) was a German administrative lawyer . From 1936 to 1941 he was President of the Government of the administrative district of Kaliningrad .

Life

After voluntarily participating in the First World War , Hoffmann began studying law . During his studies in 1919 he became a member of the Obotritia Rostock fraternity . He completed his studies in 1923 with the trainee exam. In the same year his took place Promotion to Doctor of Law . He then completed his legal preparatory service as a government trainee. In 1925 he passed the assessor examination.

From 1925 Hoffmann was an unskilled laborer for the district administrator in Nordhausen and at the beginning of September 1927 he moved to the senior presidium in Königsberg . From February to September 1933 he was an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of Finance , and from May to August 1933 in the Reich Chancellery at the same time as a personal assistant to Adolf Hitler . On April 20, 1933, he was promoted to the government council and on September 1, 1933, he was delegated to the Prussian Building and Finance Directorate. From October 1933 to November 1934 he was in charge of the district office of the Königsberg district . From April 1935 he was Vice President of the Government District of West Prussia and from July 1936 to 1941 Government President of the District of Königsberg. Until his appointment in January 1937, he temporarily headed the administrative district. From 1940 he was also Vice President of the East Prussian Upper Presidium. Hoffmann was a member of the DNVP from 1919 to 1925 . On March 1, 1932, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.061.364). He was head of the Gau Main Office in the East Prussian NSDAP Gau and a member of the domestic affairs department of the Gaustabes. Within the SA he held the rank of squad leader.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Hoffmann and his family fled to Berlin. From 1950 he worked for the IHK Berlin .

He was married to Liselotte, b. Stutz. His son was the military historian Joachim Hoffmann (1930–2002).

Paul Hoffmann died a few days before his 73rd birthday in Berlin. His grave is in the Dahlem cemetery .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 369-370.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Christian Rohrer: National Socialist Power in East Prussia. (= Colloquia Baltica. Contributions to the history and culture of East Central Europe. 7/8). Academia Baltica (Ed.), Verlag Martin Meidenbauer, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-899-75054-6 , p. 578.
  2. ↑ a b c d Georg Bitter: The Prussian Government in Königsberg 1918–1945 . Rautenberg, Leer 1988, ISBN 978-3-792-10375-3 , p. 93.
  3. ^ Ralf Meindl: East Prussia Gauleiter. Erich Koch - a political biography. fiber Verlag, Osnabrück 2007, ISBN 978-3-938400-19-7 , p. 156.
  4. ^ The Berlin Mission of Count Prokesch-Osten 1849-1852. Dissertation Joachim Hoffmann, FU Berlin, p. 165.
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 570.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1973
Place of death Berlin