Jakob Grimminger

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Hitler during the Nazi party rally in Nuremberg in 1935. The Führer takes down SA units marching past. In the car behind Hitler: the blood flag and next to it its bearer, the SS man Jakob Grimminger.

Jakob Grimminger (born April 25, 1892 in Augsburg , † January 28, 1969 in Munich ) was a German SS leader. Grimminger was best known for his role in National Socialist propaganda , in which he appeared as the " blood flag bearer" since the 1920s .

Life

Youth and First World War

Grimminger was a son of foreman Josef Grimminger and his wife Wilhelmine, born Gruber. In his youth, Grimminger attended elementary school. He was then trained as a model carpenter . When he was 16, he volunteered for the army . From 1914 to 1917 he was employed as a mechanic for the air force in Alsace , Flanders and France during the First World War . In the summer of 1917 he switched to the infantry as a pioneer foreman , with whom he fought in Palestine against the British and Arabs under TE Lawrence until the end of 1918 . He was u. a. awarded the Iron Cross . At the end of the war, Grimminger was interned in a prison camp on the Bosporus until March 1919 . After returning to Germany, he was released from army service on April 3, 1919.

Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism

After the war, Grimminger worked for the FF Kustermann machine factory in Munich. In July 1922 he joined the NSDAP and also became a member of the SA . In the same year he was selected for the " Adolf Hitler raid ", a unit initially only twelve men strong, which had been founded by Hitler for personal protection and which was subsequently increased to over 30 men. On November 8 and 9, 1923, he participated in the Hitler putsch in Munich.

On the occasion of the re-establishment of the NSDAP in the spring of 1925, Grimminger rejoined the party. In the new NSDAP he was given membership number 759. On February 25, 1926, Grimminger joined the SS, which was founded in 1925 as Hitler's “ Praetorian Guard ” . At that time he was one of the first eight members of the Munich SS Standard 1 led by Sepp Dietrich .

The elitist position of the SS was underlined by the fact that Hitler entrusted it with the custody of the blood flag at the first Nazi Party Congress held in Weimar in 1926 . Due to the poor health of Heinrich Trambauer , the regular bearer of the blood flag, Grimminger finally took over the task of the second bearer of the flag and finally became the permanent and pre-authorized bearer of the flag. In this capacity, he played a key role in the cult that the National Socialists had around the blood flag and the events of the Hitler putsch of 1923: At the Nazi party rallies, Grimminger always appeared with the blood flag in close proximity to Hitler, whoever "consecrated" new SA and SS standards by letting Grimminger touch them with the blood flag.

When Heinrich Himmler took over the leadership of the SS in 1929 and began to fundamentally reorganize it, Grimminger was one of the 280 SS men whom Himmler took over into "his" organization. According to the seniority lists of the SS , Grimminger had had membership number 135 since then at the latest.

After the National Socialist seizure of power , Grimminger got a job at the welfare office of the city of Munich and became a councilor there around 1937 . Within the SS he was assigned to the staff of the 1st SS Standard in Munich and later to the staff of the SS Upper Section South, to which he belonged as an SS honorary leader . Grimminger, who had been married to Hildegard Weber since August 1, 1936, reached the peak of his SS career in April 1943 when he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer .

post war period

After the end of the Second World War , Grimminger was brought before an Allied court because of his membership in the SS . Although he was not sentenced to prison, the Allies confiscated all of his property in 1947.

From 1948 after three years of internment Grimminger lived again in Munich , in the 1960s he withdrew from the public and died impoverished on January 28, 1969. Grimminger was first buried in the Munich forest cemetery, but the grave was later dissolved. His remains were reburied in an anonymous grave in the Herzebrock-Clarholz community .

In 2011, the right-wing Winkelried-Verlag published the book The Cornet of Blood Flag. Jakob Grimminger's private notes.

Promotions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Archives Munich: Police Directorate Munich No. 6703, Bl. 2: Examination of Griminer with information about himself from July 25, 1923 .
  2. ↑ Gordon Williamson: The SS - Hitler's Instrument of Power. Neuer Kaiser Verlag 1998, p. 260
  3. ↑ Entry on Find A Grave
personal data
SURNAME Grimminger, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist, bearer of the blood flag in the film "Triumph des Willens"
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1969
Place of death Munich