Peter Hoffmann | |
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![]() Hoffmann in 2008 | |
Born | Peter C. W. Hoffmann 13 August 1930 |
Died | 6 January 2023 | (aged 92)
Nationality | German |
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 (13 August 1930 – 6 January 2023) was a German-Canadian historian who was the William Kingsford Professor[1] in the Department of History at McGill University. His principal area of research dealt with the German resistance against Nazism, and in particular, the resistance efforts of Claus von Stauffenberg. Hoffmann lived in Canada and in Germany.