Robert Hofmann (politician)

Robert Karl Hofmann (born February 13, 1896 in Kusel , † January 16, 1969 in Landau in the Palatinate ) was a German engineer and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Born as the son of a later chief railway foreman, Hofmann studied mechanical engineering and statics at the TH Karlsruhe and the TH Aachen after attending the secondary school in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Karlsruhe fraternity in 1922 . In Aachen, he was summa cum laude for Dipl.-Ing. appointed. After the end of his school career, he worked from 1912 to 1914 as a technical trainee at the Internationale Baumischinenfabrik AG in Neustadt an der Haardt . He took part in the First World War from 1914, most recently as a major in the reserve in the 1st Bavarian Pioneer Battalion .

From 1922 to 1923 he was employed as a designer at Gebr. Pfeiffer , Barbarossawerke AG in Kaiserslautern and then until 1924 at the A. Langhammer machine factory in Gersweiler . In 1924 he was in Heilbronn design engineer at the engine works and iron foundry Julius Wolff & Co. GmbH . From 1924 to 1927 he was assistant at the chair for lifting machines and building science ( TH Aachen ). He then went to Recklinghausen as a calculation engineer and assembly manager for the Karl Still company until 1933 . From 1927 to 1930 he was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . At the beginning of October 1930 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 335.380) and from 1933 was initially an alderman and later town planning officer and first alderman of the city of Herten . In 1934 he took part in the Nazi Party Congress and in 1936 on the Day of the Old Guard in Berlin . In 1935 he became SA-Obersturmbannführer of SA-Standarte 15. He became War Office Director for local politics in Recklinghausen. After he was in Bremen in 1935 at the SA leader check , he went to Gauschule Porta in 1936 and to the Reichsschulungsburg Erwitte in 1937 . He took part in World War II from 1939 on, with deployments in France and Russia , most recently as a major in the reserve of pioneers. At the end of March 1943 he became Lord Mayor of Bottrop , which he remained until the end of March 1945 when he handed over the official business to his successor. He was taken prisoner of war in the Stukenbrock camp near Bielefeld and returned to Bottrop in 1947. He was denazified with level 3 . Until his retirement in 1956 he worked as a structural engineer for architects and then moved to Landau in the Palatinate, where he died in 1969.

Honors

• First World War
  • Iron Cross 2nd class
  • Bavarian Military Merit Order with Swords
  • Front fighter cross
• Second World War
  • War Merit Cross with Swords II. And I. Class

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 354-355.
• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 180f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian state research. Economic and social history group. 16)