Momm, Johann Wilhelm (Willy)

Lawyer, politician, government president

Born: 27.08.1865 in Barmen

Died: 14.11.1935 in Potsdam

Momm studied law in Freiburg and Berlin and received his doctorate in Jena. In 1887, he passed the first state examination in law. Initially a court clerk, he worked as a government clerk for the government in Düsseldorf from 1890.

After passing the major state examination for senior civil servants in Berlin, he first became a government assistant in 1892, then from 1894 an assistant at the district office in Ottweiler and from 1897 at the government in Trier. From 1900-06 he was district administrator in St. Wendel. In 1906, he moved to the High Presidium of the Rhine Province in Koblenz, where he was promoted to High Presidial Councillor in 1910. In 1918, he received his appointment as District President in Trier. The very next year, he became district president in Wiesbaden, but continued to carry out his official duties in Trier until 1920, as the occupying authorities delayed his assumption of office until March 16, 1920.

In August 1920, he was expelled from the French occupation zone following the arrest and "kidnapping" of the putschist Adam Dorten by the Frankfurt police. Momm was only able to take office in November 1920. In August 1922, he was relieved of his office by the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission and in 1924 he became District President in Potsdam. He held this office until his retirement in 1930.