Hans Hoffmann (born 2 December 1919) was an
SS-''
Rottenführer'' and member of staff at
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
. He was prosecuted at the
Auschwitz Trial.
Born in
India, Hoffmann was a
German national with
Yugoslavian citizenship. He worked as a locksmith. Following the invasion by Nazi forces, Hoffmann was drafted into the Yugloslavian army, and was taken prisoner by Germany. He joined the SS on October 21, 1942, and was deployed to Auschwitz, where he initially worked as a guard. Later he was assigned to the
Politische Abteilung (camp
Gestapo) in the main camp. In October 1944, he was deployed to Birkenau, where he worked as an interrogator.
Hoffmann was tried by the
Supreme National Tribunal at the Auschwitz Trial in
Kraków for his role at the camp, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Due to an amnesty, he was released on 14 July 1956.
Bibliography
* Cyprian T., Sawicki J., ''Siedem wyroków Najwyższego Trybunału Narodowego'', Poznań 1962
1919 births
Possibly living people
People convicted in the Auschwitz trial
Gestapo personnel
Nazis from outside Germany
Immigrants to Yugoslavia
Yugoslav emigrants to Germany
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