Oskar Hoffmann (politician) explained

Oskar Hoffmann (4 July 1877 – 3 February 1953) was a German editor and politician. He served in the Landtag in North Rhine-Westphalia and was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.^[1] After the war, he became a member of the Communist Party. He was arrested in 1933 and for one month, was held at Kemna concentration camp,^[2] where he was tortured physically and psychologically.

Sources

• Kurt Schnöring, "Oskar Hoffmann" in: Wuppertaler Biographien. 14. Folge, Wuppertal (Born) 1984,

Notes and References

1. http://www.landtag.nrw.de/portal/WWW/Webmaster/GB_I/I.1/Abgeordnete/Ehemalige_Abgeordnete/details.jsp?k=00482 "Detailansicht des Abgeordneten Oskar Hoffmann"
2. David Magnus Mintert, Das frühe Konzentrationslager Kemna und das sozialistische Milieu im Bergischen Land (PDF) Ruhr University Bochum, doctoral dissertation (2007), p. 275. Retrieved January 14, 2012