Johann Hofer was a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 lawyer.

He and his wife Amalie Hofer

Amalie Hofer

Amalie Hofer, née Weissenrieder was the German wife of Johann Hofer...

, née Weissenrieder (12 September 1820 in Gengenbach, 18 February 1872) were agitators and revolutionaries in the 1848 Revolution

Revolutions of 1848 in the German states

The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states, also called the March Revolution – part of the Revolutions of 1848 that broke out in many countries of Europe – were a series of loosely coordinated protests and rebellions in the states of the German Confederation, including the Austrian Empire...

. Afterwards, he and his wife sought refuge first in Switzerland, and then from July 1851 in Hoboken

Hoboken, New Jersey

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, New Jersey. They were able to return home to Germany in the 1860s, and did so.

Johann and Amalie were the parents of at least three children: Ernest Hofer, born in 1843, Otto Hofer, born in 1845, and Berta Amalia Mathilde Hofer, born in 1846.

Literature

• JANSEN-DEGOTT, Ruth: Amalie Hofer, geb. Weissenrieder – Auf den Spuren einer politisch engagierten Frau, In: Die Ortenau. Veröffentlichungen des historischen Vereins für Mittelbaden, Bd. 78 [1998], S. 592-606.

• VOLLMER, Franz X.: Offenburg 1848/49. Ereignisse und Lebensbilder aus einem Zentrum der badischen Revolution, Karlsruhe, 1997.

• ASCHE, Susanne: „Freigesinnte Schöne“ – Die Rolle der Frauen in der badischen Revolution 1848/49, In: Die Ortenau. Veröffentlichungen des historischen Vereins für Mittelbaden, Bd. 78 [1998], S. 579-606.

• SCHELLINGER, Uwe: „... und besonders verdient die Frauenwelt das Lob, zum Besseren mitgewirkt zu haben“. Die Rolle der Frauen während der Revolutionsereignisse 1848/1849 am Beispiel der Aktivitäten in der Ortenau, In: Die Ortenau. Veröffentlichungen des Historischen Vereins für Mittelbaden, Bd. 76 [1996], S. 321-356.