 In 1803, he was forced to resign as after one of his subordinates had committed fraud, and 750,000 francs were missing from his coffers.After Napoleon's defeat and the return of Mainz to German control, Hofmann moved to his late wife's estates in Winkel.While he was no longer active as a revolutionary, he was suspicious to the authorities as a Jacobin, and his house was searched in the 1830s.