Career
He began gymnastics training at the age of five. Beginning in 1976, he trained with the South Carolina Dynamo Berlin. In their youth, they shared a boarding school room during their time with South Carolina Synamo Berlin.
At the world championships in the same year his team finished fourth.
At those games, Hoffmann was seventh all-around and sixth on the floor. After retiring from competitions he worked as gymnastics coach and then became a teacher in Bad Sachsa, Germany, where he committed suicide in 1997.
