Heinz Hoffmann
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Karl-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 Po
Hoffman in 1982
Hoffmann's official Volkskammer portrait, 1954
Heinz Hoffmann's grave on Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten on Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde in East-Berlin Photo by Stian Nordskog
National People's Army
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The National People's Army were the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic from 1956 until 1990.
Heinz Hoffmann
…1955 to 1957 Hoffmann studied at the Voroshilov General Staff Academy of the Soviet Union. Due to this training he was not in East Germany when the new National People's Army was founded. After his return from the Soviet Union, he served from 1957 to 1960 as the first Deputy Minister of National Defense, and from 1958 to…
Soldiers of the Guard Regiment Friedrich Engels marching at a changing-of-the-guard ceremony at the Neue Wache on the Unter den Linden in East Berlin
A DDR finial, here for a flag of a Ministry of the Interior (MdI) unit; the NVA had the same in gold.
An NVA Tatra-813 carrying a GAZ-63
MiG-29 in East German service