Familie Hoffmann
This page is still a work in progress. Many new findings and discoveries were added recently in March 2026 and still need to be compared with other sources and records and verified. Some information comes from online family trees (FamilySearch) and should be treated with caution.
Johann Hoffmann, born before 1825 in Lackenbach, came to Lockenhaus as a merchant around 1867. He was married to Julia Hoffmann (née Winternitz). The wedding took place on December 15, 1842, in Lackenbach. The couple had a son named Leopold/Lipot (born before 1860).
In 1867 (this date comes from a letter in the BLA’s Arisierungsakten regarding a house purchase offer; according to Perl*, it was around 1869), Johann Hoffmann purchased the house at Hauptstraße 33 in Lockenhaus. Nothing else is known about him.
His son Leopold/Lipot Hoffmann purchased a neighboring house in 1912 (date from the same letter/BLA; Perl does not provide a year). He presumably later inherited his father’s house at Hauptstraße 33. The Hoffmann property now consisted of the house facing the street, which housed the general store, and the courtyard house where the family lived. Behind the house was a large green area with a vegetable garden.
Leopold/Lipot Hoffmann was married to Karoline Hoffmann (née Joachim). The couple is listed in the state records (deaths and marriages from 1895 to 1920) as the parents of Emma Süssmann (marriage record) and Hoffmann Miksa (death notice). Hermine Hacker was likely their daughter as well; Perl writes in his house chronicle: “Leopold’s daughter Hermine,” but does not provide the mother’s name; a birth announcement for Hermine including her parents’ names has not been found to date. Hermine (married to Moritz Hacker) takes over the general store and, together with her husband, will later take over the entire property; Karoline Hoffmann, according to the records, is granted lifelong "Fruchtsgenuss". When Leopold died is unknown. However, the chronicler Father Ägidius Schermann wrote as late as 1936 in his book *The History of Lockenhaus* about the business: “Hoffmann is still doing well today,” which could also indicate a common practice of continuing to use the familiar business name, namely Hoffmann.
The following two online findings cast uncertainty on our research:
1. A family tree lists a Leopold Hoffmann who married Fani Esther Hofmann, née Joachim (!), on August 13, 1878. According to this online family tree, the couple had a son, Karl, who was born in Lockenhaus in 1880. Here, too, Johann Hoffmann and Julia (née Winternitz) are listed as Leopold’s parents.
2. Lizzi Hofmann, unmarried, fills out an emigration questionnaire in Vienna and lists her father as Adolf Hoffmann, born in 1881 in Lockenhaus.
Unresolved questions: Is Fani (Esther) Hofmann the same person as Caroline/Karoline Hoffmann (née Joachim), for whom there is a Page of Testimony at Yad Vashem, and is Leopold, the husband of Fani and father of Karl (born in Lockenhaus), not the same person as Leopold, the father of Hermine mentioned by Perl? Leopold’s date of birth is (as of March 2026) unknown.
From today’s perspective, the following seems plausible:
The children of Leopold and Karoline Hoffmann from Lockenhaus are:
*Data from government records
Hermine Hacker (née Hoffmann), born on July 1, 1879, married to Moritz/Mór Hacker. More information about Hermine here. (Hermine Hacker’s page will be updated soon)
Emma Süssmann (née Hoffmann)*, born on February 22, 1888, married to Adolf Süssmann, a printing assistant from Moson, Hungary. Wedding on February 3, 1913, in Léka/Lockenhaus—Dr. Süss and Ignaz Stössel signed as witnesses.
Miksa/Max* Hoffmann, born in 1880, married to Paula Wellisch. Their son, Jenö Hoffmann, died in 1915 at the age of eight. The obituary for Jenö Hoffmann was signed by Mór Hacker (Hermines’ husband). Miksa Hoffmann died in World War I on June 23 (other source: 22.6.) 1916 on the battlefield against the Russian army (casualty list October 7, 1916). His name is inscribed on the war memorial in Lockenhaus.
Additional names found in connection with the Hoffmann family in Lockenhaus/Léka:
Josefa Hofmann, died March 11, 1893, in Lockenhaus; born in 1811 in Eisenstadt (Kis Martón).
Betty Hofmann, born ca. 1852, died on June 27, 1876, in Lackenbach. Registered in Lockenhaus. Source: Jewish Civil Registry of Hungary, JewishGen/MyHeritage
Fany Hofmann, born ca. 1848, married Leopold Braun in Lockenhaus on February 17, 1874. Jo. Hofmann is listed as the bride’s father. Registered in Lackenbach. Source: Jewish Civil Registry of Hungary, LDS 700801, Vol. 2, JewishGen/MyHeritage
Adolf Hoffmann, born August 26, 1881, in Lockenhaus, married to Adele (from Moravia). Daughter Lizzi, born in 1919 in Vienna, filled out an emigration questionnaire in May 1938 (Source: MyHeritage, Emigration Questionnaire, May 1938 to IKG Vienna). It is unknown whether she managed to flee.
Karl Hoffmann, born on August 18, 1880, in Lockenhaus, parents: Leopold and Fany Joachim(!?), Source: Jewish Civil Registry of Hungary,
JewishGen/MyHeritage
Sources:
Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, Municipal Registers from 1895–1920, Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah
House chronicle by Othmar Perl (ca. 1960); Ägidius Schermann, History of Lockenhaus (1936); BLA, OSA
Websites: MyHeritage, FamilySearch, Geni
There are various spellings: Hoffmann, Hofmann, Hoffman. The most likely form in relation to Lockenhaus is “Hoffmann.”