Harald Momm
Harald Momm (born November 15, 1899 in Trier , † February 6, 1979 in Munich ) was a German show jumper and colonel in the German Wehrmacht .
Life
The son of government official Wilhelm Momm attended grammar school between 1907 and 1917 and then began his officer career as an ulan . During World War I he was deployed in Italy and France , and eventually became a lieutenant in the border guard. In 1924 he was accepted into the Reichswehr .
Sports
In 1927 Harald Momm became a rider in the jumping stables at the Hanover cavalry school . The chestnut gelding Baccarat (* 1919 in England), with which he won the German Spring Derby in 1933 , was in his possession from 1929. In 1934 Momm was reappointed to the cavalry school and became its head in 1936. After the Summer Olympics in 1936 , he became head of the German show jumpers.
Second World War
At the beginning of the war he was an orderly officer of General Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel . Between 1941 and 1943 Momm was transferred to the Eastern Front . Here he put his military knowledge to the test, so that in 1943 he became a colonel and commander of the army, riding and driving school in Potsdam . The friendship with Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , however, was to damage his career. Because of the derogatory remark " Ordonance , a bottle of bubbly , the pig is dead!" In connection with July 20, 1944 , Momm was demoted and transferred to the SS division under the direction of Oskar Dirlewanger . There he was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer and battalion commander in the last months of the war .
post war period
End of April 1945 fell Momm near Berlin in Soviet captivity , from which he returned before the end of the 1949th He soon managed to gain a foothold professionally by becoming managing director of the United Hirsch Coal Works . A lung disease contracted while in captivity - he was used in mining - prevented him from continuing his sporting career. Nevertheless, he remained head of show jumping, including at the 1956 Olympic Equestrian Games in Stockholm.
As one of the few officers in the Dirlewanger criminal unit , Momm was rehabilitated to his old rank as colonel after the war .
swell
- Hermann Freiherr von Nagel: Great German tournament riders of the past . FN Verlag of the German Equestrian Association, ISBN 3-88542-017-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Weiß (ed.): "Biographical Lexicon for the Third Reich", Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, entry "Momm, Harald"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Momm, Harald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German show jumper and colonel in the German Wehrmacht |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1979 |
| Place of death | Munich |