Police units were first notified of trouble by three police detectives stationed at the "Löwenbräukeller". These reports reached Major Sigmund von Imhoff of the state police. He immediately called all his green police units and had them seize the central telegraph office and the telephone exchange, although his most important act was to notify Major-General Jakob von Danner, the "Reichswehr" city commandant of Munich. As a staunch aristocrat, Danner loathed the "little corporal" and those ""Freikorps" bands of rowdies". He also did not much like his commanding officer, Generalleutnant Otto von Lossow, "a sorry figure of a man". He was determined to put down the putsch with or without Lossow. Danner set up a command post at the 19th Infantry Regiment barracks and alerted all military units.