Reuven Hoff (1889)

Reuven (Reuwen) Hoff (1889, Viljandi — ?) – physician and public figure.

Reuven Hoff studied medicine in Königsberg and Leipzig, and later in Kyiv. In Leipzig he served as chairman of the students’ council (graduated from the university in 1912). He succeeded in ensuring that Jews were again admitted to the University of Leipzig.

Before the First World War he worked at a municipal hospital. During the war he served as a military physician. In 1919 he arrived in Jelgava, where he helped to build the Bikur Cholim Hospital, organised a Jewish community, founded a savings bank, and personally financed the repair of the synagogue and the beit midrash, as well as the restoration of the Jewish cemetery.

Since 1930 he lived in Riga and was an active member of several public organisations.