Hans von Seisser

Hans Seißer (actually Johann), since 1914 Knight von Seißer (born December 9, 1874 in Würzburg ; † April 14, 1973 in Munich ), as colonel and chief of the Bavarian State Police, was one of the participants in the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch in 1923.

Life

origin

Seißer was the son of the royal Bavarian commercial judge and banker Ludwig-Barbarossa Seißer and his wife Fanny Wagenhäuser. The family has been running a textile trading house (M. Ph. Seisser) and a bank "Bankhaus Louis Seisser" in Falkenhaus in Würzburg since 1773 . Seisser's sister Anna married Major General Julius Ritter von Braun (1864–1933) in 1890 . Seisser's uncle Andreas Ritter von Seisser was President of the Bavarian State Bank ; a nephew of his father, Kommerzienrat Michael-Philipp Seißer , was vice head of the state women's association of the Red Cross for Northern Bavaria and ran the family company Seisser.

Military career

After graduating from the Cadet Corps in 1893, Seißer joined the 2nd Artillery Regiment of the Bavarian Army as an ensign . From 1901 to 1904 Seisser graduated from the War Academy , which made him qualify for the higher adjutantage, the subject (war history) and the general staff. When the First World War broke out , he was Major First General Staff Officer of the 4th Infantry Division . On September 26, 1914, Seisser was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order for his services in the battle near Bapaume . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal, non-hereditary nobility with the predicate "Knight of". As the war continued, Seißer was on the staff of the General Command from the beginning of January to mid-April 1917 . b. V. 63 , then with the 1st Army and finally since April 18, 1918 as Chief of the General Staff of the 2nd Army Corps . Seißer had been the chief of the police force since October 1919 (since November 1920: Bavarian State Police ) in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and built up the association.

Hitler putsch

Together with Gustav Ritter von Kahr and Otto von Lossow formed Seißer the " triumvirate " Bavarian dignitaries who are in the coup attempt of Adolf Hitler on November 8, 1923 to participate in a coup government under Prime Minister-designate Ernst Pöhner were persuaded. On that day Hitler stormed a meeting with armed fighters in the Bürgerbräukeller on Gasteig and pushed his designated comrades-in-arms Kahr, Lossow and Seißer into an adjoining room; Hitler is said to have exclaimed: "If things go wrong: I have four shots in my pistol, three for my employees, if they leave me, the last bullet for me." Later, Erich Ludendorff joined them.

Seißer was the designated police minister in the new Bavarian government sought by Hitler. However, the "triumvirate" revoked the commitment to participate in the government that same night. When they arrived at the city ​​headquarters , Lossow and Seißer informed the generals of the Reichswehr and the state police that the declaration made in the Bürgerbräukeller had been forced by force of arms, and they revoked it. They broke away from Hitler and Ludendorff and took countermeasures to thwart the putsch. Seißer had the city center cordoned off by the police against the advancing SA troops. The next day the Hitler putsch collapsed in front of the Feldherrnhalle .

Seisser retired as a police colonel on January 31, 1930. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was some time in the Dachau concentration camp detained. From May to August 1945 he was briefly reactivated by the American occupation forces as police chief of the city ​​of Munich .

family

Seißer was married to Walburga (Wally) Leube, daughter of the pathologist and internist Wilhelm von Leube , since 1903 . The two had a son and a daughter. His son Hans-Ulrich Seisser was married to Barbara Brinckman (* 1921), daughter of the Hamburg merchant and consul Franz Brinckman. The marriage later ended in divorce. Seisser's daughter also married into a Hamburg merchant family. His descendants live in Munich.

coat of arms

After Seißer had been entrusted with the Military Max Joseph Order on September 26, 1914 and was consequently raised to the personal Bavarian nobility , the Bavarian Heraldry suggested that the present family coat of arms (registered by Seisser's uncle, the State Bank President Andreas von Seisser). The Reichsherold reserved Seisser, however, to donate his own coat of arms if necessary, but advised him to register "Seisser's coat of arms" in the form that was already there. Seißer decided on the "Seissersche coat of arms, which his uncle wore", but wanted to have integrated the oath hand from the local coat of arms of this city into the family coat of arms to commemorate the battle near the city of Bapaume . This was approved by the Heraldry. The documents for this new coat of arms foundation are in the Bavarian main state archive in Munich.

Blazon (from the book of arms of the MMJ order and the manual of the Bavarian aristocracy):
“Heraldic shield divided: Above in blue a golden rafter (from the Seisser family coat of arms). Below, in red, a silver open hand (from the coat of arms of the city of Bapaume). On the crowned helmet a closed blue flight, covered with a golden rafter. Helmet covers, blue gold on the right, red-silver on the left. "

literature

• Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 574.
• Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Acts of War and Book of Honor 1914–1918. Self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order, Munich 1966, pp. 412–413.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 574.
2. ^ Werner Maser: The early history of the NSDAP: Hitlers Weg bis 1924. Athenaeum-Verlag, 1965, p. 446.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Died . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1973, p. 180 ( online ).