Paul Hofmann (Gauleiter)
Paul Hofmann (born August 24, 1901 in Meißen ; † October 16, 1980 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a free corps fighter and Gauleiter of the NSDAP .
Life
After attending elementary school and high school, he completed the teachers' seminar in Dresden .
In 1919 he registered for the Iron Division and was deployed in the Baltic States , then with the so-called Eastern Border Guard and the East Prussian Border Guard. From 1920 to 1930 he was a member of the Reichswehr (most recently head harness master ).
On November 1, 1930, he joined the NSDAP and a month later became Gau managing director in the Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt and head of the Dessau local group . In 1931 he was appointed Gau Organization and Gaul Propaganda Leader and in 1932 finally Deputy Gauleiter.
Hofmann had been a member of the Anhalt State Parliament since April 1932 and in August the election for the First City Council of Dessau, who was allowed to call himself mayor. In this role he initiated one of the first Nazi actions after Hitler came to power against authors who thought differently and their books, when on February 6, 1933 he bought works by Erich Kästner , Leon Trotsky , Erich Maria Remarque , Max Hölz and Ludwig Turek from the Dessau city library removed. Hofmann also had a list of all communist and pacifist books drawn up, as well as a list of suggestions for national books that should be added to the city library instead.
After Gauleiter Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper was appointed State Inspector in August 1932, Hofmann took over the management of the Gau at short notice. The state inspection was lifted again in December, Loeper Gauleiter again and Hofmann moved back into the second tier. However, differences with Gauleiter Loeper followed, which led to Hofmann resigning all party and other honorary posts in March 1933. In April of the same year he resigned from his post as mayor.
On November 1, 1933, he took on a job at the NSBO -Junkerswerke in Dessau and on December 1, 1934, he worked in the central office of the DAF . He was later taken into protective custody again.
In the 1950s, Hofmann headed the Berlin branch “Tatgemeinschaft Freie Deutscher”, a union of right-wing conservative entrepreneurs who advocate the interests of bomb victims and displaced persons. In 1953 he and his colleagues founded the Social People's Party (SVP), which was later renamed the German Social People's Party (DSVP). The SVP / DSVP entered the House of Representatives elections in 1954 on the list of the Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised (BHE). According to the SED central organ Neues Deutschland , Hofmann was deprived of his active and passive right to vote for three years on November 30, 1954 because of “active Nazi activity”. After the election to the House of Representatives, the BHE merged and the DSVP and Hofmann became deputy chairman.
literature
- Joachim Lilla (arrangement): The deputy Gauleiter and the representation of the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in the "Third Reich" (= materials from the Federal Archives. Issue 13), Koblenz 2003, ISBN 3-86509-020-6 .
- Karl Höffkes : Hitler's Political Generals. The Gauleiter of the 3rd Reich; a biographical reference work. Grabert-Verlag , Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-87847-163-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Politicization of a city library . In: Altonaer Nachrichten No. 31, February 6, 1933 [without author or abbreviation].
- ↑ Richard Stöss: The All-German Block / BHE . In: Derselbe (Ed.): Party Handbook. The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980 . tape 3 . Opladen 1986, p. 1424–1459, here 1444, footnote 46 .
- ↑ BHE stands behind Nazi gangs . In: New Germany . December 3, 1954, p. 6 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hofmann, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German NSDAP Gauleiter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meissen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1980 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Wilmersdorf |