Hermann Kriebel

Hermann Kriebel (1876 – 1941) was a retired lieutenant colonel and former Bavarian staff officer.

He had fought with the Freikorps during the White counterrevolution and in 1923 became the military leader of the Kampfbund, the league of 'patriotic' and fighting societies which included Adolf Hitler's Nazi party and SA; the Oberland League; and Ernst Röhm's Reichskriegflagge. Kriebel was, with Hitler and Erich Ludendorff the key figure in the November of 1923 "Beer Hall Putsch" and was convicted with Hitler in 1924 serving his sentence in the Landsberg prison just outside Munich.

After his release from prison, he maintained his ties with the Nazi party and the Oberland League but did not benefit from Hitler's rise to power. He became the German consul general in Shanghai. According to Time Magazine, as a member of the German 1919 Armistice delegation his parting words were "See you again in 20 years."