Dr. Franz Albert Hofmann
Personalia
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Persecution:
Imprisonment (and house arrest) 12.03.1938 - 23.04.1938,
Release
Memberships
Curriculum Vitae
Franz Albert Hofmann began his law studies at the University of Vienna in 1904 after graduating from the Schottengymnasium, graduating in 1911 with a doctorate in law. He became a member of the "Akademischer Lese- und Redevereins christlich-deutscher Studenten" in Vienna. When the Amelungia student fraternity emerged from this association in 1907, he was one of its founders. In 1909, he entered judicial service and first became a judge in Wr. Neustadt and then in Neunkirchen. In October 1914, he passed the examination to become a judge.
After the First World War, during which he ultimately held the rank of senior lieutenant auditor, he was transferred to the Vöcklabruck District Court. In 1930, he moved to the Frankenmarkt District Court, where he worked as a regional court councillor and head of court and in 1936 as a higher regional court councillor. He is also a functionary of the Patriotic Front.
On March 12, 1938, I was arrested at 4:15 a.m. at the request of the district leadership of the NSDAP Vöcklabruck in my official apartment in Frankenmarkt, where I suffered a heart attack as a result of the commotion, so that medical help had to be called. I was declared medically fit for transport by telephone and taken by car to the Vöcklabruck district authority, from where I was released to house arrest in my Vöcklabruck apartment. I was held under house arrest until April 23, 1938, i.e. for 43 days.
In line with his convictions, he was a fierce black man and an equally staunch VF advocate. Because of his convictions, he naturally hated anything that professed to be nationalist and therefore sought to render it harmless. For this reason, he applied the law as best he could at every opportunity.
In addition, he is accused of discrimination in "post assignments" and harassment of "established party members", among other things.
I am relieving you of active service at the end of this month and wish you well for the future.
With effect from December 31, 1938, his pension is "reduced by half" in accordance with the decision of the Reich Governor of December 20, 1938 "on the basis of § 4, paragraphs 1 and 3 of the Ordinance on the Reorganization of the Austrian Professional Civil Service of May 31, 1938". From then on, he is under police surveillance and lives in seclusion in Vöcklabruck. He is dismissed through forced retirement.
Citations
Krause, Peter/Reinelt, Herbert/Schmitt, Helmut (2020): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen. Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. Teil 2. Kuhl, Manfred (ÖVfStG, Wien) S. 128/129.
