Ernst Pöhner

Ernst Pöhner was Munich's Chief of Police from 1919 to 1922. He was a vigorous anti-communist and antisemite who was in office when Bavarian Minister President Gustav Ritter von Kahr had Ostjuden, or "Eastern Jews", expelled from Bavaria. As part of an antisemitic campaign throughout Germany in 1920, Kahr ordered the mass expulsion from Bavaria of the so-called Eastern Jews, many of whom had lived there for generations.