Oskar Hoffmann (politician)

Oskar Hoffmann (July 4, 1877 – February 3, 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.[1] 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,[2] 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

"Detailansicht des Abgeordneten Oskar Hoffmann" Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved January 9, 2012 (in German)
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

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