Office: | Minister of Defence |
Term Start: | 13 July 1889 |
Term End: | 6 March 1891 |
Primeminister: | Emil Stang |
Predecessor: | Johan Sverdrup |
Successor: | Peter T. Holst |
Birth Date: | 11 April 1838 |
Birth Place: | Bergen, Hordaland, Sweden-Norway |
Death Place: | Bergen, Hordaland, Norway |
Party: | Conservative |
Edvard Hans Hoff (11 April 1838 - 7 June 1933) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was Minister of Defence from 1889 to 1891.[1] Hoff was military officer, and was promoted to Lieutenant General (generalløytnant) in 1905.[2] He wrote the first bridge manual in Norway in 1907, titled Bridge - Spillets love, regler og etikette ("Bridge - the Laws, Rules and Etiquette of the game").