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Oskar Hoffmann (4 July 1877 – 3 February 1953) was a German editor and politician. He served in the Landtag in North Rhine-Westphalia and was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. After the war, he became a member of the Communist Party. He was arrested in 1933 and for one month, was held at Kemna concentration camp, where he was tortured physically and psychologically.

Sources

• Kurt Schnöring, "Oskar Hoffmann" in: Wuppertaler Biographien. 14. Folge, Wuppertal (Born) 1984, ISBN 3-87093-035-7 (in German)

References

1. "Detailansicht des Abgeordneten Oskar Hoffmann" Archived 2018-10-30 at the Wayback Machine Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved January 9, 2012 (in German)
2. David Magnus Mintert, Das frühe Konzentrationslager Kemna und das sozialistische Milieu im Bergischen Land (PDF) Ruhr University Bochum, doctoral dissertation (2007), p. 275. Retrieved January 14, 2012 (in German)

External links

• Literature by and about Oskar Hoffmann (politician) in the German National Library catalogue

• Members of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
• German communists
• Kemna concentration camp survivors
• 1953 deaths
• 1877 births
• Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians