Albert Hoffmann (24 October 1907 – 26 August 1972) was a German entrepreneur and during the Third Reich the Nazi Gauleiter of Westphalia-South. Early life After his apprenticeship, he first took up a job as a raw tobacco salesman. In 1925 Hoffmann joined the National Socialist Worker Youth (Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterjugend) and was among the founding members of the SA and Nazi Party in Bremen. He also worked as a propaganda leader in the Oldenburg area. Nazi career 1933-1945 Shortly after Adolf Hitler's seizure of power, Hoffmann gave up his profession, entered full-time party work and held functions in the NSDAP's Bremen District Leadership, until he was appointed a Political Leader on Rudolf Hess's staff in July 1934 and went to work at the Brown House in Munich. In November 1936, Hoffmann joined the SS. He was appointed Stillhaltekommissar for Austria and later also in the Sudetenland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which mainly involved taking care of property law matters. At the same time, he was responsible for building up the Party in the aforesaid areas. In the summer of 1939, Hoffmann underwent military training and, assigned as an unteroffizier of reserves, participated actively in the Invasion of Poland. On 10 February 1941, while retaining his other functions, he was made Deputy Gauleiter of the recently established Gau Upper Silesia and, on 3 June, also gained a seat in the Reichstag representing electoral constituency 17 (Breslau). From May to September 1942 he served as Martin Bormann's representative on General Walter von Unruh's staff, seeking to mobilize for total war and replenish losses of manpower. In this capacity, he traveled widely through the occupied eastern territories, including the General Government, Ostland and Ukraine. Hoffmann advised Hitler on the Holocaust. He gave insights into actions of the Einsatzgruppen murders and on the death camps of Operation Reinhard, on which he spoke at the Reich Chancellery. He made suggestions for improvement, or Verbesserungsvorschlägen, to Hitler and Joseph Goebbels. "In the course of the travel of the DB by the "eastern territories", Hoffmann won deep insights in the extermination of the Jews, Germanization policies, and the brutal measures to recruit "Eastern workers." To leading representatives of the "Final Solution", including the General Governor of Poland, Hans Frank, and Odilo Globocnik, head of Operation Reinhard. He had to portray the work processes and "successes" of their campaigns. In his reports to Bormann, who