Josefine Grimme

Josefine Grimme , née von Behr, divorced head (born October 3, 1907 , † April 22, 1999 ) was a German political activist at the end of the Weimar Republic . She became known through her marriages with the Lower Saxony Prime Minister Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf and the Minister of Education and Artistic Director of the NWDR Adolf Grimme . Her political activity in the NSDAP in the late 1920s and early 1930s as secretary to Joseph Goebbels and supporter of Walther Stennes was a political problem after the war.

Life and activity

Josefine von Behr was the daughter of Arthur Freiherr von Behr, a German-Baltic police master in Mitau and Libau , and his wife Wanda geb. Baroness von der Ropp . Her older brother Artur von Behr (1904–1974) was the leader of the NSDStB -Hochschulgruppe Berlin from 1926 to 1928 , which fell apart as early as 1930 (and related to Stennes), later a publisher and after the war from Bovenden as an editor from 1949/50 the Baltic Rundschau .

As a young woman she began to be politically active. She became a member of the NSDAP on December 3, 1925 (22,986). In 1926 she became the personal secretary of Joseph Goebbels, who was then Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Berlin. She held this position until 1929. According to hints in Goebbels' diaries, the two of them were also loosely in private at times. In 1930, Behr approached the Berlin SA chief Walther Stennes . From the rejection that Stennes and his supporters in the Berlin SA took on the political course of Adolf Hitler and the Munich party leadership of the NSDAP and especially their strategy for conquering power, which consisted in striving for political power in the state exclusively by (formally) legal means , (in contrast, Stennes pleaded for an activist-revolutionary confrontation and / or elimination of the Weimar system), on April 1, 1931, the so-called Stennes revolt occurred , in which Stennes and his supporters broke openly with Hitler and the party leadership and you canceled the allegiance. In the course of the crisis that shook the Berlin NSDAP and SA for a few weeks during this month, which - depending on the reading - ended with the exclusion of Stenne and his supporters from the NSDAP and the SA or their split from them, Josefine von Behr also left out of the party.

According to a report by Kurt Daluege's intelligence service from 1933, Behr then acted as Stennes' private secretary until 1933. In addition, she is said to have been in a leading role in his intelligence service. For example, she received news about the NSDAP from a friend in the Brown House in Munich , which is said to have been one of the most important sources of the Stennes organization in its fight with the NSDAP.

In his first marriage, Behr was married to the Upper Silesian landowner on the Sadów manor (Sodow, today in Koszęcin ) Wolfgang Kuba. After his death in 1940, she married the later Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf, who worked in Königshütte as a property trustee of the HTO in what is now a controversial way . In 1943 he retired to Sadów as a farmer in order to cultivate the 400 hectares. They both left the place in January 1945 on a refugee trail. After their divorce in 1947, she married Adolf Grimme, whom she had met as minister of culture in her husband's cabinet. He died in 1963.

literature

• Kai Burkhardt: Adolf Grimme (1889-1963). A biography , Böhlau 2007 ISBN 978-3-41220025-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.myheritage.de/names/josefine_kuba
2. ^ Joseph Goebbels: Diaries 1926. Retrieved on February 6, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Josefine Grimme has adopted Wolfgang's son Ferdinand Kuba, who has actively participated in the debate about Kopf's Polish time: https://www.nwzonline.de/leserbriefe/streit-um-kopf-doktorarbeit_a_20,0,1185864892.html
4. ↑ You have to be a district administrator. In: Der Spiegel. April 20, 1955, accessed February 8, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Project group: namesake personalities. In: final report. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .