Florian Josef Hoffmann, born 1946 in Marktoberdorf/Allgaeu (Bavaria, Germany),
has studied business economy in Nuremberg and law in Bonn.
He worked as a lawyer and as a versatile business consultant. He has been managing
a music hall, streamlining a porcelain factory, producing pants, developing software
and more.
Being a liberal-conservative politician with social impetus, Hoffmann worked in Thuringia
after the fall of the Berlin Wall and was president of the east-thuringian Chamber
of Industry and Commerce in Gera from 1991 to 1993.
In 1991 he was co-editor of the book “Marketingorientierte Unternehmensführung,
Konzepte für die Neuen Bundesländer” (Marketing oriented business management,
concepts for the newly-formed German states), which was conceived from a series of
lectures about social market economy which he did with professor Karl-Heinz Hoppe in Jena.