Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Otto Hofmann (March 16, 1896 – December 31, 1982) was an Austrian SS-Gruppenführer and an official of Nazi Germany's "Race and Settlement Main Office". Hofmann was born in Innsbruck, Tyrol. He served as a military pilot in World War I. Originally trained as a wine salesman, he joined the SS in 1931. Life Hofmann, the son of a merchant , reported after visiting the school in August 1914 as a volunteer for the First World War. In March 1917, promoted to lieutenant, he came in June of that year in Russian captivity , from which he escaped to Germany. Here he completed his pilot training before he was released in 1919 to civilian life.