Alfons Hoffmann

Who was Alfons Hoffmann?

Professor Alfons Hoffmann was a Polish engineer and political activist.

After graduating, 1911–1913 and 1918–1919, Prof. Hoffman worked as an engineer for the Garbe Lahmeyer company in the electric machine laboratory and in the construction department, in Aachen, Westphalia.

Before World War I Hoffman was a prominent member of the Polish intelligentsia in the portion of Poland that was part of the Prussian partition. He was active in social and cultural organizations, including the youth movement Sokół and local choirs. At the end of the war, between 1918 and 1920 he became politically involved and advocated for the return of Pomerania to newly independent Poland.

In 1922 Hoffmann worked out the first plan for the electrification of Province of Pomerania.

During the Stalinist era, Hoffmann was removed from any position which would have a direct effect on the development of Polish power engineering industry. He became an instructor at the Gdańsk University of Technology in the Engineering Department working under Prof. Kazimierz Kopecki.

Alfons Hoffmann died on December 30, 1963 and was buried in the Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz cemetery.