{{Infobox military person |name=Hans-Sigmund von Imhoff |birth_date=30 June 1881 |death_date={{death date and age|1967|7|7|1881|06|30|df=y}} |birth_place=Metz |death_place=Farchant (Oberbayern) |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance={{flag|German Empire}}<br/>{{flag|Nazi Germany}} |branch={{army|German Empire}}<br/>Luftwaffe |service_years= |rank= General der Bayerischen Landespolizei |commands= |unit= |battles=World War I<br/>World War II |awards=Ehrenkreuz des Preußischen Johanniter-Ordens |other_work= }}
'''Sigmund von Imhoff''' (30 June 1881 – 7 July 1967) was a Generalmajor in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
== Biography == Wilhelm Maria Sigmund Heinrich, Freiherr von Imhoff, was born a member of the Imhoff family in Metz, Lorraine, on 30 June 1881.<ref name ="gen3">Wilhelm Maria Sigmund Heinrich von Imhoff on [http://www.geneall.net/D/per_page.php?id=1665080 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. 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.<ref>[http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Infanteriedivisionen/44ID-R.htm 44.Infanterie-Division] sur lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de.</ref> Sigmund von Imhoff was later seconded to the Luftwaffe, with the rank of Generalmajor.
Wilhelm Maria Sigmund Heinrich, Freiherr von Imhoff, died in Farchant, Oberbayern, on 7 July 1967.<ref name ="gen3"/>
==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ;Bibliography {{refbegin}} * Dieter Zinke, Andreas Schulz : ''Die Generale der Waffen-SS und der Polizei'' - volume 3, Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf, 2008 (p645- 651). {{refend}}
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