City command office Munich
The Munich City Command was the command center of the Bavarian Army in Munich . She was responsible for the administration of the Bavarian troops in the city and with the police headquarters responsible for internal security. The commandant's office was authorized to intervene directly in the event of unrest. She did this e.g. B. after the revolution of 1918 and during the Hitler putsch .
Since 1872, command offices in Bavaria only existed in the fortresses of Ingolstadt and Germersheim , on the military training areas in Lechfeld , Hammelburg and Grafenwöhr and in the capital Munich. The tasks of the commandant included the ordering of military-police measures, the organization of the guard duty, the maintenance of the military installations and buildings and the arrangement of the garrison parades .
City command office Munich
In Munich, the commandant's office (before 1872 commandantship ) was primarily representative during the kingdom . She was subordinate to the commanding general of the 1st Army Corps . From 1904 to 1924 it was based in the building of the Bavarian Army Museum , today's Bavarian State Chancellery .
After the November Revolution in 1918 the political power of the city commanders grew because he had armed troops, but his authority was not great enough to really command the Munich soldiers. During the Munich Soviet Republic (April 7th to May 2nd, 1919) Rudolf Egelhofer was city commander, shortly thereafter Wilhelm Weinberger followed . After the end of the Munich Soviet Republic, Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Herrgott became city commander. His staff included Ernst Röhm and Christian Roth (1873–1934). During the Hitler putsch (November 8 and 9, 1923 in Munich), the then city commandant Jakob von Danner took measures against the actors very early on.
1945
On April 28, 1945, Lieutenant General Rudolf Huebner , a fanatical National Socialist , was appointed " Combat Commandant of Munich" on the orders of Albert Kesselring . During the last days of the war, many people were hanged or shot under his command . Huebner resigned himself "without singing and sounding" (quote from Henke) when Munich was taken on April 30, 1945.
His predecessor Bernhard Hofmann (1896–1982) held this office from April 25 to April 28, 1945, he was replaced “as not tough enough”.
literature
- Harold J. Gordon jr .: Hitler putsch 1923. Power struggle in Bavaria 1923-1924 , Frankfurt am Main 1971.
- Christian Lankes: Munich as a garrison in the 19th century (military history and defense sciences 2), Berlin et al. 1993.
- Michael Seligmann: Uprising of the councils , Grafenau-Döffingen 1989.
Web links
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- ↑ Klaus-Dietmar Henke: The American Occupation of Germany , page 856 ( online in the Google book search)
- ↑ administration manual.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de