Sigismund Freyer

Sigismund Freyer was an active officer in the Royal Prussian Army and a show jumper. He came in fifth in the individual event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics on his horse Ultimus. He won a bronze medal in team jumping. One year before, he had been a member of the German team at the tournament 1911 in London celebrating the coronation of King George V.

Freyer later became a police officer acting as head of uniformed field service in the rank of major at the Darmstadt police headquarters (1929-30) and later head of the field service department of the riot police in Hesse in the rank of colonel (1932-33). During the time as police major, he wrote a textbook Neues Reiten. Über die Grundlagen der modernen Gebrauchsreiterei (New riding. About the basics of modern commercial equestrianism).

Freyer was married to Erna Luise Maria Katharina von Derschau.