Wilhelm Grimm (politician)

Wilhelm Grimm

Wilhelm Grimm (born December 31, 1889 in Hof ; † July 21, 1944 near Coswig (Anhalt) ) was a high-ranking member of the NSDAP .

Life

Grimm graduated from the non-commissioned officers' school in Fürstenfeldbruck from 1906 to 1909 . Then he was administrative inspector at the Ansbach pension office . He took part in the First World War and was released into civilian life as a lieutenant in October 1919 . He returned to the Ansbach pension office as senior secretary, was promoted to administrative inspector there in 1927 and worked in Ansbach as a propagandist and organizer for the German Volkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund in the Middle Franconia area .

In 1920 he joined the anti - Semitic German Socialist Party , of which Julius Streicher was a member. This party joined the NSDAP in 1922 ( membership number 10.134); Grimm was local group leader in Ansbach and district leader in 1926, from September 3, 1928 to 1929 he was Gauleiter for Middle Franconia, then from 1929 deputy Gauleiter for Franconia. As early as 1928 he entered the Bavarian State Parliament for the NSDAP , and from November 1933 he was a member of the Reichstag .

Located high above the Schliersee, Wilhelm Grimm's country house, built in the mid-1930s, has a wide, unobstructed view. With its heavy stone plinth and the opulent use of wood, it is a prime example of building in the mountains of this era. The flanking round windows on the upper floor testify to this day of the client's attitude.

From January 1932, Grimm was a member of the NSDAP's investigative and arbitration committee, a body that regulates internal party disputes. From June 1932 he was also the deputy chairman of the Supreme Party Court and the chairman of the 2nd Chamber of the Supreme Party Court of the NSDAP. He was thus one of 18 Reich leaders of the NSDAP.

The SS (SS no. 199823) entered Grimm on 18 October 1933 rank of top leader at. Within a few months in 1934 he was promoted to SS honorary leader with the rank of SS group leader.

Grimm died in a car accident. He was buried in Schliersee five days after his death .

Web links

Wilhelm Grimm in the database of members of the Reichstag
Wilhelm Grimm in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Axis History Research ( Memento from December 1, 2002 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970; ISBN 3-87473-000-X ; P. 310.

personal data
SURNAME	Grimm, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Gauleiter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	court
DATE OF DEATH	July 21, 1944
Place of death	Coswig , Anhalt

[1] Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970; ISBN 3-87473-000-X ; P. 310.