Otto Hofmann

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Otto Hofmann was a high-ranking SS official and head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office who played a role in implementing Nazi racial policies during the Holocaust.

Aliases (2)
  • Georg Leibbrandt ×1
  • Gottlieb Hering ×1

Statements (43)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust perpetrator
Nazi official
SS officer
human
activeDuring Nazi era in Germany
World War II
allegiance Nazi Germany
citizenship German Reich
countryOfCitizenship Germany
dateOfBirth 1896-03-16
dateOfConviction 1948-03-10
dateOfDeath 1982-12-31
dateOfRelease 1954
employer SS Race and Settlement Main Office
Schutzstaffel
facedTrialIn Nuremberg Military Tribunals
RuSHA Trial
familyName Hofmann
givenName Otto
ideology Nazism
memberOf National Socialist German Workers' Party
Schutzstaffel
militaryRank SS-Obergruppenführer
notableWork administration of racial selection and settlement policies
participatedIn Germanization policies in occupied Eastern Europe
Holocaust
implementation of Nazi racial policies
resettlement operations of ethnic Germans
penalty 25 years imprisonment
prison sentence later reduced
placeOfBirth German Empire
Ingolstadt
Kingdom of Bavaria
placeOfDeath Bad Mergentheim
West Germany
positionHeld chief of RuSHA
head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office
responsibleFor classification and Germanization of populations in occupied territories
oversight of Lebensborn-related settlement policies
racial screening of SS members and their families
sexOrGender male
wasConvictedOf crimes against humanity
war crimes

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference ("Georg Leibbrandt")
attendee
Belzec ("Gottlieb Hering")
hasNotablePerpetrator

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