| Peter Hoffmann | |
| Birth Name: | Peter C. W. Hoffmann |
| Birth Date: | 13 August 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Dresden, Saxony, Germany |
| Death Place: | Montreal, Canada |
| Nationality: | German |
| Occupation: | Professor |
| Thesis Title: | The diplomatic relations between Wurtemberg and Bavaria from the Crimean War and the beginning of the Italian Crisis |
| Thesis Year: | 1961 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Franz Schnabel |
| Discipline: | History |
| Sub Discipline: | German resistance against Nazism |
| Workplaces: | McGill University |
Peter C. W. Hoffmann (13 August 1930 – 6 January 2023) was a German-Canadian historian who was the William Kingsford Professor[1] in the Department of History at McGill University. His principal area of research dealt with the German resistance against Nazism, and in particular, the resistance efforts of Claus von Stauffenberg. Hoffmann lived in Canada and in Germany.
Hoffmann was born in Dresden, Germany, on 13 August 1930 and grew up in Stuttgart. He was the son of, a former director of the Wurtemberg State Library and University Library of Tübingen.[2] After studying at the universities of Stuttgart, Tübingen, Zurich, Northwestern University and Munich he received his doctorate in 1961 from Franz Schnabel following his thesis defence on The diplomatic relations between Württemberg and Bavaria during the Crimean War and until the beginning of the Italian Crisis (Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Württemberg und Bayern im Krimkrieg und bis zum Beginn der Italienischen Krise). In 1965 he became a postdoctorate at the University of Northern Iowa. In 1970 he took up a teaching position on German History at McGill University in Montreal. Hoffmann was the William Kingsford Professor of History at McGill and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Hoffmann died on 6 January 2023, at the age of 92.[3]