His parents were Austrian immigrants who settled in the Lower East Side, where his father worked in the real estate business.
[1] In 1921, Schoffel ran in the New York State Assembly as a Democrat, with the endorsement of the Republican Party, in the Bronx County 4th District, which at the time was a Socialist district.
In 1933, Mayor John P. O'Brien appointed him a Justice on the Municipal Court to fill a vacancy.
He was a member of the Free Sons of Israel,[6] the Bronx County Bar Association, the Freemasons, the Royal Arcanum, and the Elks.
[1] Schoffel died from a heart attack while on vacation at a hotel in Ridgefield, Connecticut on July 8, 1946.