Johann Hofer (18 August 1810 in

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– 4 August 1880 in

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) was a German lawyer. He and his wife

Amalie Hofer Amalie Hofer, née Weissenrieder (12 September 1820, in Gengenbach, Baden – 18 February 1872) was the German wife of Johann Hofer (18 August 1810, in Önsbach – 4 August 1880, in Offenburg) Both were agitators and revolutionaries in the 1848 R ...

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

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

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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

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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

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. 76 996 S. 321–356.

References

*http://pohl.iig.uni-freiburg.de/1848/index.php?id=63 (with inconsistencies) 1810 births 1880 deaths People from Achern People from the Grand Duchy of Baden 19th-century German lawyers German-American Forty-Eighters Jurists from Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-law-bio-stub