HOFFMANN, MAX (1869-1927), German general, was born at Homburg on Jan. 25, 1869. He spent many years in Russia, and was sometime general staff officer in the provinces of Posen and East Prussia. In 1914 he was general staff officer to the VIII. Army, was present at Tannenberg, became quarter master-general of the Eastern command, and in 1916 succeeded Ludendorff as chief of the general staff in the East, under Prince Leopold of Bavaria. From that time he was mainly responsible for the operations on the Eastern front. In Dec. 1917 he con ducted, on the German side, the negotiations with the Russians at Brest-Litovsk, and in February signed the treaty with the Ukraine. After the war he engaged in a lively controversy with Ludendorff. The rift seems to have dated from Jan. 1918, when Hoffmann read to the Emperor, William II., a memorandum con demning Ludendorff's scheme of Polish annexations. He sharply criticized the German high command in his book (1923), Der Krieg der versdumten Gelegenheiten (the War of Lost Oppor tunities), which, in spite of the evident animus against Hinden burg, Ludendorff and Falkenhayn, is a document of considerable importance to the student of the war. In Tannenberg wie es wirklic/i war (1927) he impugned the official account of the vic tory of Tannenberg, which was, he says, due to strategic orders drawn up before Hindenburg and Ludendorff arrived, and to the tactics of Gen. Francois, who commanded the I. Corps, and went his own way in defiance of Ludendorff's orders. Gen. Hoffmann is credited with a scheme for military intervention in Russia in 1922, and he wrote a book against Bolshevism, entitled An alien Enden Moskau (1925). He died on July 8, 1927.