Richard von Hoff

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Ernst Richard von Hoff (until 1919 Richard Vonhof , born June 12, 1880 in Sachsenburg , today part of Oldisleben , † May 7, 1945 in Bremen ) was a German educator , politician ( NSDAP ) and from 1933 to 1945 Senator for Education of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

biography

Von Hoff was the son of the farmer and engineer Otto Vonhof. Vonhof attended the old grammar school in Bremen . He is said to have been very talented in languages. From 1901 to 1905 he studied linguistics and German at the University of Leipzig . He received his doctorate in Leipzig as Dr. phil. with a dissertation on Nordic philology. His preoccupation with the subject of Nordic-Germanic culture made him a fanatical racist.

After completing his studies, he became a scientific assistant teacher in 1907, and from 1909 a senior teacher (teacher) at the Oberrealschule Bremen on Dechanatstrasse. He was active in many associations, including together with the coffee dealer Ludwig Roselius in the Association for Lower Saxony Folklore , in the Plattdütschen Vereen , in the German Language Association and in the Association for Prehistory . After his military service as an officer in the First World War , he was a co-founder of the Bremen adult education center and from November 2, 1919 head of this school. In 1919 he changed his name from Vonhof to von Hoff .

politics

Hoff had been a member of the NSDAP since 1930 (membership number 403.074). In 1931 he became NSDAP cultural warden. In addition, he was head of the "Kampfgruppe Nordsee" in the nationally-minded, anti-Semitic Kampfbund for German culture .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he became commissioner for church affairs and for the school system and, from March 11, 1933, senator for education in Bremen. He restructured the school system in line with the National Socialists and emphasized racial studies in a particular and one-sided way. In the party he rose to the position of SA group leader and chief trainer for racial issues . He was instrumental in founding the Nordic Art College , a predecessor of the Bremen College of the Arts in 1933/34. In 1939 he became SS-Oberführer .

At times together with Hans FK Günther , he was the editor of the magazine Rasse. Monthly of the Nordic Movement , first published by the Nordic Ring, then from 1936 by the Nordic Society .

In April 1945 he was seriously injured in a bomb attack; he died of its consequences.

Hoff's The Nordic Kinship Thought was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

Works

  • Richard Vonhof: On the development of Germanic real verbal composites in Old West Norse. Bremen: Nössler 1905, also Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1905
  • The Lower Saxony Adult Education Center: 4 essays. Bremen: Niedersachsen-Verlag 1918; 2nd, presumably edition Bremen: Schünemann 1919
  • Richard and Paul von Hoff: The von Hoff: Family Tables. Dresden 1920
  • Fall and rise in people and families. Erfurt: Erfurt Genealogical Evening 1931 (Scientific Treatises / Erfurt Genealogical Evening; 4)
  • The Nordic clan idea. Leipzig: Eichblatt 1940 (Education and Nation; 76/77)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 258.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-h.html
personal data
SURNAME Hoff, Richard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoff, Ernst Richard von (full name); Vonhof, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pedagogue, politician (NSDAP), Bremen Senator
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Sachsenburg, today part of Oldisleben
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1945
Place of death Bremen