Erich Grimoni

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Erich Grimoni (born September 13, 1908 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † August 7, 1974 in Lemgo ) was a German teacher who was involved in the institutions of the East Prussian expellees.

Life

Grimoni attended the Löbenichtsche Realgymnasium and studied philology at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1930 he passed the examination to become a gymnastics and sports teacher, and in 1932 the examination to become a high school teacher. He then became a teacher in Deutsch-Eylau , and in 1942 rector in Soldau . During the Second World War, Grimoni worked for the Air Force's weather service, most recently as a meteorology instructor at the Aviation School in Danzig-Langfuhr. He was one of those men who immediately after the expulsion tried to preserve the East Prussian heritage. In 1949 he was a co-founder of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional group of the East Prussia Landsmannschaft and its long-term chairman. In addition, he was a member of the federal executive committee and federal cultural advisor of the Landsmannschaft. At his suggestion, the House of the German East was built in Düsseldorf ; today it is the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus Foundation . Grimoni founded the Agnes Miegel Society in Bad Nenndorf and renewed the Prussia antiquity society in Duisburg , the godfather of East Prussia's former provincial capital. The Prussian shield of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft was created by him. In 1968 he played a key role in setting up the Museum City of Königsberg in Duisburg. From 1973 until his death in 1974 he was city chairman of the municipality of Königsberg . Grimoni died as a high school supervisor and was buried in the Duisburg forest cemetery. Since then, his son Lorenz Grimoni has headed the Museum Stadt Königsberg, which was closed in 2016. The holdings came to the East Prussian State Museum .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
personal data
SURNAME Grimoni, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 1974
Place of death Lemgo