He was generally perceived as a rare skilled troop commander who was more interested in the pedagogical part of the profession than in the purely strategic issues.

[2] It is likely that Meyerhöffer was deeply influenced by the sentiments prevailing in the officer corps in the decade before the World War I; moods characterized by distrust of Soviet Union - the Red Scare - and a nationalism that was often combined with the worship of Charles XII and the dream of a new era of Swedish heyday.

[1] He passed studentexamen at Luleå högre allmänna läroverk on 4 June 1910 and became a volunteer in Norrbotten Regiment on 6 May 1911 and he was commissioned as an officer on 20 December 1913.

Meyerhöffer served as a regimental adjutant there from 1919 to 1922 and from 1922 to 1924 he was a student at the Royal Swedish Army Staff College.

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel there and appointed contingency officer in the staff of the 2nd Army Division (II.

After Meyerhöffer was appointed Colonel and Executive Commander of the Life Regiment Grenadiers in 1942, his political activities came to an end.

A politically awkward situation threatened because both Vougt, Douglas and Meyerhöffer wanted to resign from their respective posts if an appointment did not take place.

[1] Political and personal contradictions (in many ways by Douglas' cousin, the new Chief of the Army since 1948, Lieutenant General Carl August Ehrensvärd[3]) led, however, that he prematurely requested to leave his post in 1951.