title: Franz Hoffmeister
text: # Franz Hoffmeister
  
  Franz Hoffmeister (22 March 1898 – 27 March 1943) was a German Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Sauerländer Heimatbund and Festspiele Balver Höhle.
  
  ## Life
  
  Hoffmeister was born in Ramsbeck. He was consecrated to a Roman Catholic priest by bishop Hähling von Lanzenauer in 1924.
  
  