Ernst Pöhner (11 January 1870,

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– 11 April 1925) was

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's Chief of Police ('Green' Police President) from 1919 to 1922. A vigorous anti-Semitic and anti-communist (he attempted, for example, to have ''Ostjuden'' or "Eastern Jews" expelled from Bavaria after the downfall of the Communist Bavarian Soviet Republic under the leadership of Eugen Levine was defeated in 1919), he was instrumental in mounting terror and in supporting the

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death squads. Confronted with the charge that entire groups of right-wing political assassins were at large and working in and around Munich, he is reported to have said: "Yes ... but too few of them." Ernst Röhm, ''Die Geschichte eines Hochverräters'', Eher Verlag, Munich, 1928, p. 116 He was closely linked to

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, who had staged his own ''putsch'' in 1920 but who opposed the 1923 Hitler ''putsch''. Pöhner was a central figure in the Hitler ''putsch'' being named as Bavaria's prime minister on the night. He was subsequently convicted with Hitler in 1924 for five years, but released three months later, dying in a mysterious car accident in 1925. He is mentioned in ''

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''.

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1870 births 1925 deaths People from Hof, Bavaria People from the Kingdom of Bavaria German National People's Party politicians Nazi Party politicians Alldeutscher Verband members Collaborators who participated in the Beer Hall Putsch German police chiefs German police officers convicted of crimes Military personnel of Bavaria Thule Society members {{Authority control

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