Hoff was born Magdalene Allwicher in
Hagen, then part of the German state of
Prussia, on 29 December 1940. and was trained as both a civil engineer and a lecturer. From 1975 to 1979, Hoff served as a member of the City Council of Hagen. Following that, she became responsible for the Working Group of Social Democratic Women in the SPD district of Western Westphalia as its district chairperson between 1982 and 1996. At the
1984 European Parliament election in West Germany, she was reelected to serve in the Second European Parliament again representing the constituency of West Germany between 24 July 1984 and 24 July 1989. Hoff again was elected to represent the constituency of West Germany from 25 July 1989 to 18 July 1994 at the
1989 European Parliament election in West Germany, initially for the Socialist Group and then for the Group of the Party of European Socialists from 1993. At the
1994 European Parliament election in Germany, Hoff won her fourth re-election to represent the Germany constituency at the Fourth European Parliament from 19 July 1999 to 19 July 1999. She served as vice-chair of the Group of the Party of European Socialists from 1994 to 1997 before becoming the group's member of the bureau between 1997 and 1999. Hoff was vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with Central Asia and Mongolia and was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy and the Delegation for relations with Central Asia and Mongolia. She was a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control, the Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee and the Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee. She was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy and was on the Delegation for relations with the United States. Hoff was a substitute for the
Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport, the
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy and the Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee. ==References==