Sigmund von Imhoff

Wilhelm Maria Sigmund Heinrich Freiherr von Imhoff (born June 30, 1881 in Metz , † July 7, 1967 in Farchant ) was a Bavarian state police officer and major general in the Air Force in World War II .

Life

Wilhelm Maria Sigmund Heinrich von Imhoff was the son of Henriette Behaim von Schwartzbach (* 1849, † 1917) and Gustav Christoph Karl Sigmund von Imhoff . He was born in the German-occupied state of Alsace-Lorraine . His son Sigmund, a major in the army , died at Operation Barbarossa in August 1941. His sister Henriette was married to Erich von Botzheim .

From 1912 to August 1, 1914, he attended the 45th course at the Bavarian War Academy , which, however, was discontinued after the end of the second course due to the First World War . Sigmund von Imhoff was deployed as a captain in the First World War without graduating from the War Academy.

In 1920 he was retired from the Bavarian Army and transferred to the Bavarian State Police .

In 1923 Sigmund von Imhoff, major in the command of the Munich State Police, was based in the Munich Police Headquarters . On September 26, 1923, Gustav von Kahr in protest at the end of the resistance of the Cabinet Stresemann I against the Ruhr occupation due to the hyperinflation of the Cabinet Knilling under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution appointed General State Commissioner with dictatorial powers in Bavaria. The hierarchy of the Munich city police was interspersed with members of the Oberland Freikorps , who were used in the Hitler coup . On November 8, 1923, Wilhelm Frick, the new police chief, accepted congratulations from individual officers at the Munich police headquarters and gave a press conference with Ernst Pöhner around midnight . Sigmund von Imhoff was informed about draft notices of the Freikorps Oberland on November 8, 1923. At 9:00 p.m. on November 8, 1923, Imhoff ordered rural police from the barracks in Munich to strategic points in Munich and contacted Gustav von Kahr's office . After the press conference, Pöhner and Frick were arrested at the Munich police headquarters. Under the command of Lieutenant Michael Freiherr von Godin , the state police stopped the armed march of the putschists at the Feldherrenhalle with armed force on November 9th.

In 1928 he was made a lieutenant colonel and in 1930 a police colonel. On April 3, 1933, he was promoted to the rank of general in the police force and retired . Later he was reactivated with the rank of major general to the defense branch AST air in military district VII.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gustav Christoph Karl Sigmund von Imhoff
2. ↑ Kaestner and von Urach's Adelsdatenbank: Stammblatt Gustav Freiherr von Imhoff (father) ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Joachim Schröder, The Munich Police and National Socialism, p. 40 f .; Dan Ryan, Enigma : The Caldwell Series, 2011, p. 57