Otto Hofmann
Encyclopedia
Otto Hofmann was an Austria
n SS
-Gruppenführer
and an official of Nazi Germany
's "Race and Settlement Main Office".
, Tyrol
. He served as a military pilot in World War I
. Originally trained as a wine
salesman, he joined the SS in 1931.
Life
Hofmann, the son of a merchant, reported after visiting the school in August 1914 as a volunteer for the First World War. In March 1917, promoted to lieutenant, he came in June of that year in Russian captivity, from which he escaped to Germany. Here he completed his pilot training before he was released in 1919 to civilian life. After short-term operation in a Freikorps[1] He was active from 1920 to 1925 in the wine wholesale, then he started his own business as a wine representative.
In April 1923, Hofmann was in the NSDAP (Member 145 729 ) and in April 1931 he was a member for the SS (Member 7646 ). From 1933 he worked full time as an SS officer. On 29 March 1933 he ran unsuccessfully in the general election.
In 1939 he was co-editor of the journal Biologist, by SS - Ancestral Heritage had been taken.[1 ] From July 1940 to April 1943, he was chief of Race and Settlement Main Office the SS In this capacity, he participated in the Germanization of the territory Poland and Soviet Union. He was responsible for the Race test, distributed as a consequence population of the occupied territories from their land and German,were located there, for the abduction of Polish children to Germany and for the SS - kin care. On the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942, the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question on the subject, had called the Hofmann Sterilization the Hybrids.
In April 1943, Hofmann was leader of the SS and the upper portion of southwest Higher SS and Police Leaders in Württemberg, Baden and Alsace. He was the commander of the prisoners in the local Military District V. He was put to trial for the Race and Settlement Main Office in March 1948. He was charged with Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes. Although Hofmann was sentenced to 25 years in prison, on 7 April 1954 he was pardoned. He was dismissed from the Prison Landsberg After that, he was a clerk in Württemberg until he died in December 1982.
source: wikipedia.de
(Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt – the Race and Settlement Main Office) within the SS. In this capacity he took part in the Wannsee Conference
, in which members of the Nazi hierarchy discussed policies which were later enacted and led, in part, to The Holocaust
. In 1943 he was transferred to Stuttgart
as SS and Police Leader
for South-Western Germany.
ed in 1954. He died in Bad Mergentheim
.
.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n SS
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...
-Gruppenführer
Gruppenführer
Gruppenführer was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party, first created in 1925 as a senior rank of the SA.-SS rank:...
and an official of Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
's "Race and Settlement Main Office".
Early life
Hofmann was born in InnsbruckInnsbruck
- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...
, Tyrol
County of Tyrol
The County of Tyrol, Princely County from 1504, was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1814 a province of the Austrian Empire and from 1867 a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary...
. He served as a military pilot in World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
. Originally trained as a wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
salesman, he joined the SS in 1931.
Life
Hofmann, the son of a merchant, reported after visiting the school in August 1914 as a volunteer for the First World War. In March 1917, promoted to lieutenant, he came in June of that year in Russian captivity, from which he escaped to Germany. Here he completed his pilot training before he was released in 1919 to civilian life. After short-term operation in a Freikorps[1] He was active from 1920 to 1925 in the wine wholesale, then he started his own business as a wine representative.
In April 1923, Hofmann was in the NSDAP (Member 145 729 ) and in April 1931 he was a member for the SS (Member 7646 ). From 1933 he worked full time as an SS officer. On 29 March 1933 he ran unsuccessfully in the general election.
In 1939 he was co-editor of the journal Biologist, by SS - Ancestral Heritage had been taken.[1 ] From July 1940 to April 1943, he was chief of Race and Settlement Main Office the SS In this capacity, he participated in the Germanization of the territory Poland and Soviet Union. He was responsible for the Race test, distributed as a consequence population of the occupied territories from their land and German,were located there, for the abduction of Polish children to Germany and for the SS - kin care. On the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942, the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question on the subject, had called the Hofmann Sterilization the Hybrids.
In April 1943, Hofmann was leader of the SS and the upper portion of southwest Higher SS and Police Leaders in Württemberg, Baden and Alsace. He was the commander of the prisoners in the local Military District V. He was put to trial for the Race and Settlement Main Office in March 1948. He was charged with Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes. Although Hofmann was sentenced to 25 years in prison, on 7 April 1954 he was pardoned. He was dismissed from the Prison Landsberg After that, he was a clerk in Württemberg until he died in December 1982.
source: wikipedia.de
Role in the Holocaust
From 1940-43 Hofmann was head of the RuSHARuSHA
The Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt-SS , , was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial 'purity' of the SS" within Nazi Germany....
(Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt – the Race and Settlement Main Office) within the SS. In this capacity he took part in the Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews, that Reinhard Heydrich...
, in which members of the Nazi hierarchy discussed policies which were later enacted and led, in part, to The Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
. In 1943 he was transferred to Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
as SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader was a title for senior Nazi officials that commanded large units of the SS, of Gestapo and of the regular German police during and prior to World War II.Three levels of subordination were established for bearers of this title:...
for South-Western Germany.
Imprisonment
In 1948 Hofmann was sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes, but he was pardonPardon
Clemency means the forgiveness of a crime or the cancellation of the penalty associated with it. It is a general concept that encompasses several related procedures: pardoning, commutation, remission and reprieves...
ed in 1954. He died in Bad Mergentheim
Bad Mergentheim
Bad Mergentheim is a town in the Main-Tauber district in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.-History:Mergentheim is mentioned in chronicles as early as 1058, as the residence of the family of the counts of Hohenlohe, who early in the 13th century assigned the greater part of their estates in...
.
Fictional portrayals
In the 2001 HBO film Conspiracy, he was played by Nicholas WoodesonNicholas Woodeson
Nicholas Woodeson is an English film and television actor.-Education:Woodeson attended Marlborough College and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Film:...
.
See also
- RuSHA TrialRuSHA TrialThe RuSHA Trial was the eighth of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II. These twelve trials were all held before U.S...