Arthur Hoffmann (politician)
Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:More footnotes Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox officeholder Arthur Hoffmann (19 June 1857 – 23 July 1927) was a Swiss politician who was a member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1911 to 1917.
Born in St. Gallen,<ref name="DHS">Template:Cite web</ref> Hoffmann was the son of Karl Hoffmann (1820–1895), who declined his election to the Swiss Federal Council in 1881.
Arthur Hoffmann was elected to the Federal Council on 4 April 1911 and resigned on 19 June 1917 as a result of the Grimm–Hoffmann Affair which seriously questioned Switzerland's neutrality during World War I.
He was affiliated with the Free Democratic Party. He died on 23 July 1927 in St. Gallen.<ref name="DHS"/>
During Hoffmann's office time he held the following departments:
- Department of Justice and Police (1911)
- Military Department (1912–1913)
- Political Department (1914–1917)
Hoffmann was President of the Confederation in 1914.
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- 1857 births
- 1927 deaths
- Politicians from St. Gallen (city)
- Swiss Calvinist and Reformed Christians
- Free Democratic Party of Switzerland politicians
- Members of the Federal Council (Switzerland)
- Presidents of the Swiss Confederation
- Justice ministers of Switzerland
- Defence ministers of Switzerland
- Members of the Council of States (Switzerland)
- Presidents of the Council of States (Switzerland)
- University of Geneva alumni
- Foreign ministers of Switzerland