Peter Hoffmann (historian)

Peter Hoffmann FRSC
Peter Hoffmann in 2008
Born	Peter C. W. Hoffmann (1930-08-13) 13 August 1930 Dresden, Germany
Occupation	Professor
Parent	Wilhelm Hoffmann
Academic background
Thesis	The diplomatic relations between Wurtemberg and Bavaria from the Crimean War and the beginning of the Italian Crisis (1961)
Doctoral advisor	Franz Schnabel
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	German resistance against Nazism
Institutions	McGill University

Peter C. W. Hoffmann FRSC (born 1930) is a German-Canadian historian who is the William Kingsford Professor in the Department of History at McGill University. His principal area of research deals with the German resistance against Nazism, and in particular, the resistance efforts of Claus von Stauffenberg. Hoffmann lives in Canada and in Germany.

Life

Hoffmann was born in Dresden, Germany, on 13 August 1930 and grew up in Stuttgart. He is the son of Wilhelm Hoffmann, a former director of the Wurtemberg State Library and University Library of Tübingen. 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 Wurtemberg and Bavaria from the Crimean War and 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 is the William Kingsford Professor of History at McGill and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Works

• Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat - Der Kampf der Opposition gegen Hitler. 4. new reworked and expanded edition. Piper, München 1985. ISBN 3-492-00718-X.
• German Resistance to Hitler. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1989. ISBN 0-674-35086-3.
• Stauffenberg und der 20. Juli 1944. Beck, Munich 1998. ISBN 978-3-406-43302-3.
• Hitler's Personal Security. Da Capo Press, Boston 2000 [1979]. ISBN 0-306-80947-8.
• Stauffenbergs Freund. Die tragische Geschichte des Widerstandskämpfers Joachim Kuhn. C. H. Beck, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-55810-8.
• Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Die Biographie. Fourth, expanded edition. Pantheon, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-570-55046-5.
• Carl Goerdeler and the Jewish Question, 1933–1942. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011. ISBN 1-107-00798-4.
• Behind Valkyrie. German Resistance to Hitler. Documents. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal & Kingston, London, Ithaca 2011. ISBN 978-0-7735-3770-5.
• Carl Goerdeler gegen die Verfolgung der Juden. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-412-21024-3.

Literature

• T. Lahme: Ein Leben im Widerstand. Zum 80. Geburtstag von Peter Hoffmann. In: FAZ, 9. August 2010, S. 28.

External links

• Literature by and about Peter Hoffmann in the German National Library catalogue
• Website with publications by Peter Hoffmann the McGill University server