1. Heinz Hoffmann was a German military officer and politician who served as the Minister of National Defense in the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic, and as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party.
Heinz Hoffmann fled Germany and immigrated to the Soviet Union by the way of Switzerland and Czechoslovakia.
Under the pseudonym "Heinz Hoffmann Roth" he was a Battery Commissar in the Hans Beimler Battalion.
Heinz Hoffmann took command of the Battalion after his commander was wounded.
Heinz Hoffmann himself was severely wounded in the legs and abdomen by infantry gunfire south of Quijorna.
Heinz Hoffmann was hospitalized in Madrid for a few months then later moved to a clinic in Eaubone, France where he recovered from 1938 to 1939.
Heinz Hoffmann was medically disqualified from training after parachute jumps aggravated his earlier leg wounds.
Heinz Hoffmann was then selected to work in German prisoner of war camps after assisting the Soviet NKVD in interrogating prisoners.
From 1942 to 1944, Heinz Hoffmann was a teacher at the Antifascist School, first in the territory of Gorky, and later in Krasnogorsk.
From 1950 until his death, Heinz Hoffmann was a member of the East German Parliament and was a candidate for the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
Heinz Hoffmann belonged to the Politburo of the SED from 1973 until his death in 1985.
Heinz Hoffmann was first vice president of the German Administration of the Interior and head of the Department of Political Culture with the rank of inspector general.
In 1950, Heinz Hoffmann was appointed head of the Main Administration for Training, the immediate predecessor of the Barracked People's Police.
From 1955 to 1957 Heinz Hoffmann studied at the Voroshilov General Staff Academy of the Soviet Union.
In 1960, Heinz Hoffmann was promoted as the successor of Willi Stoph as Minister of National Defense of the GDR serving in that position until his death.
In 1954, Heinz Hoffmann married a nurse, Halina, who worked in a government hospital.