Sigmund von Imhoff (30 June 1881 – 7 July 1967) was a
Generalmajor in the
Luftwaffe
The ''Luftwaffe'' () was the aerial-warfare branch of the German ''Wehrmacht'' before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' of the Imperial Army and the '' Marine-Fliegerabtei ...
during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
.
Biography
Wilhelm Maria Sigmund Heinrich, Freiherr von Imhoff, was born a member of the
Imhoff family
The Imhoff, Imhof or Im Hof family is a noble patrician family that belonged to the wealthy trading dynasties and ruling oligarchy in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg during its ''Golden Age'' in the Renaissance. The ''Imhoff Trading Company'' ...
in
Metz
Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand ...
, Lorraine, on 30 June 1881.
[Wilhelm Maria Sigmund Heinrich von Imhoff o]
geneall.net
/ref> His father, Christoph Gustav Karl Sigmund was an officer at Metz, a border town of the German Empire.
Sigmund von Imhoff served as officer in the German Army during the First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
. After the War, von Imhoff served as officer in the ''Landespolizei Freistaates'' of Bayern, the Bavarian police. On 3 April 1933, Sigmund von Imhoff was promoted to the rank of ''Polizeigeneral'', general in the police. His son, Sigmund, ''Major'' in the Heer, fell on the Russian front in August 1941.44.Infanterie-Division
sur lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de. Sigmund von Imhoff was later seconded to the Luftwaffe, with the rank of Generalmajor.
Wilhelm Maria Sigmund Heinrich, Freiherr von Imhoff, died in
Farchant
Farchant is a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, Germany.
Transport
The district has a railway station, , on the Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway
The Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway is a single tr ...
, Oberbayern, on 7 July 1967.
References
;Bibliography
* Dieter Zinke, Andreas Schulz : ''Die Generale der Waffen-SS und der Polizei'' - volume 3, Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf, 2008 (p645- 651).
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1881 births
1967 deaths
Luftwaffe World War II generals
German Army personnel of World War I
Bavarian nobility
Military personnel from Metz
People from Alsace-Lorraine
German police chiefs
Barons of Germany
Major generals of the Luftwaffe