Tassilo Hoffmann

Tassilo Hoffmann (born May 29, 1887 in Kolberg , † December 17, 1951 in Berlin ) was a German numismatist . From 1929 to 1945 he headed the Numismatic Society in Berlin .

Life

After attending school in Kolberg and Stettin , Hoffmann studied at the University of Freiburg i. Br. , At the University of Caen , at the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Greifswald . In 1911 he was in Greifswald in the subjects of economics and finance to Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1911 Hoffmann went to the Stettin Municipal Museum as an assistant to set up the local coin cabinet . His activity was interrupted by the First World War, in which Hoffmann initially fought as a reserve officer on the Western Front and was wounded several times, then served in the Upper East administration and was finally transferred to the General Command in Stettin. Among other things, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion . Towards the end of the war, Hoffmann got into trouble in Stettin when Hugo Lemcke , the chairman of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology , accused that several coins were missing from the coin cabinet administered by Hoffmann. Hoffmann was expelled from society and could not stay in Stettin.

From the beginning of 1919 to 1927 Hoffmann worked as a coin dealer in Berlin . He then tried to take up an academic position: He completed his habilitation in 1927 at the University of Greifswald in the subject of coin studies with a thesis on the medalists Jakob Abraham and Abraham Abramson and in 1929 gave his inaugural lecture on “ Coin Images of the German Middle Ages”. In 1931 he was commissioned to organize the coin stamp archive of the Münzkabinett Berlin . In 1932 he moved to the Münzkabinett Gotha and was re-qualified at the University of Jena . Due to a lack of loyalty to the director of the Münzkabinett Behrendt Pick , who was retired because of his Mosaic faith, Hoffmann was dismissed and returned to Berlin in 1935. From 1936 he worked as a private lecturer at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin .

From 1929 to 1945 Hoffmann was chairman of the Numismatic Society in Berlin and until 1944 published the society's journal, the Deutsche Münzblätter (until 1933: Berliner Münzblätter). In 1937 Hoffmann joined the NSDAP .

In the Second World War Hoffmann served again as a reserve officer, most recently as a major . During the war he lost his library and his scientific documents. After the war he was unable to gain a foothold professionally and died in Berlin in 1951 .

Fonts (selection)

• Jacob Abraham and Abraham Abramson. 55 years of Berlin medal art 1755–1810 (= writings of the Society for the Promotion of the Science of Judaism. Volume 31, ZDB -ID 846656-7 ). Kauffmann, Frankfurt am Main 1927, (habilitation thesis).
• The pennies and pennies of the Pomeranian ducal house. Sauniers, Stettin 1933.

literature

• Torsten Fried: Hoffmann, Tassilo (1887–1951). In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 5: Research on Pomeranian history. Volume 48.2). Volume 2. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 122–126.