Otto Hofmann

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Otto Hofmann
War crimes Membership in a criminal organization
Trial	RuSHA trial
Criminal penalty	25 years imprisonment; commuted to 15 years imprisonment
SS Race and Settlement Main Office
In office 1940–1943
Military service
Allegiance	Germany
Branch/service	Schutzstaffel

Otto Hofmann (16 March 1896 – 31 December 1982) was a German

Life

Hofmann was born in

In 1931, the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA), was created by Heinrich Himmler and Richard Walther Darré. In 1939, Hofmann was co-editor of the journal Biologist. From July 1940 to April 1943, he was chief of the RuSHA. In this capacity, he participated in the "Germanisation" of the captured territory of Poland and in the Soviet Union. This involved the resettling of Germans in the Nazi-occupied Eastern territories and ejecting the native families from those lands.

Hoffman was responsible for conducting the official Race test on the population of the occupied territories for racial selection. The office was also responsible for the abduction of Polish children to Germany and for the SS - kin care. He was present at the

Post war

After the war, Hofmann was put on trial in March 1948 at the