Barnet Wolff

{{Short description|American socialist politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Barnet Wolff

| image = Barnet Wolff circa 1930.jpg

| caption = Wolff {{circa}} 1917

| office1 = Member of the
New York City Board of Aldermen
from the 59th district

| term_start1 = January 1, 1918

| term_end1 = December 31, 1919

| predecessor1 =

| successor1 = Abraham Shiplacoff

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1878|11|26}}

| birth_place = France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1944|08|15|1878|11|26}}

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| resting_place = Mount Carmel Cemetery

| party = Socialist

| otherparty =

| alma_mater =

| occupation = Politician, labor leader

| spouse = Ella Nislowski

| children = {{flatlist|

• Walter
• Robert
• Benjamin
• Rosabelle

}}

}}

Barnet Wolff (November 26, 1878 – August 15, 1944){{cite web |title=Barnet Wolff |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23260198/barnet-wolff |website=findagrave.com |access-date=4 March 2025}} was a French-born{{cite web |title=New York, U.S., State Census, 1915 for Bernett Wolf |url=https://www.ancestryinstitution.com/imageviewer/collections/2703/images/32848_B094040-00663?pId=10345004 |website=ancestry.com |publisher=State of New York |access-date=4 March 2025 |date=1915}} American labor leader and politician who served as a Socialist member of the New York City Board of Aldermen, representing Brooklyn's 59th district from 1918{{cite news |title=Tammany retains Aldermanic hold; 7 Socialists win |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/57089767/?terms=Wolff&match=1 |access-date=3 March 2025 |work=Brooklyn Eagle |date=7 November 1917 |location=Brooklyn}} to 1919.{{cite news |title=Socialists lose 3 Aldermanic seats; leader Lee beaten |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/55309283/?terms=Wolff&match=1 |access-date=4 March 2025 |work=Brooklyn Eagle |date=5 November 1919 |location=Brooklyn}}

After he left office, he became manager of the International Pocketbook Workers' Union, vice chairman and treasurer of the Workmen's Circle, and director of the Circle's sanitarium in Liberty, New York. He died at his home in Queens, New York on August 15, 1944.{{cite news |title=Barnett Wolff, 65, Former Alderman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/686202737/?match=1&terms=%22Barnet%20Wolff%22 |access-date=4 March 2025 |work=Brooklyn Eagle |date=16 August 1944 |location=Brooklyn}}