Johannes Hoffmann
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Johannes Hoffmann (July 3, 1867 – December 15, 1930) was a Bavarian Minister-President and member of the SPD.
Born in Ilbesheim, near Landau, he was a Protestant and in 1908, he was elected member of the Landtag. After the revolution of November 1918, he served as Minister of Education under prime minister Kurt Eisner and later succeed him as the first freely elected Bavarian Minister President. Ousted from Munich by the Bavarian Soviet Republic, parliament and government moved to Bamberg, where Hoffmann took part in the working out of the Bavarian Constitution ("Bamberg Constitution").
In 1920, he was succeeded by Gustav von Kahr.
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| Preceded by Kurt Eisner |
Prime Minister of Bavaria 1919 – 1920 |
Succeeded by Gustav von Kahr |
