Grimminger, Jakob, born 25-04-1892 in Augsburg, Bavaria,
a son of foreman Josef Grimminger and his wife Wilhelmine, born Gruber In 1922, Grimminger joined the Nazi Party and became a storm trooper in the Sturmabteilung, SA
serving in the city of Munich. He became a member of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS)
who was famous for carrying the Blutfahne, the ceremonial Nazi flag. The Blutfahne or Blood Flag, is or was a Nazi Party swastika flag that was carried during the attempted coup d’etat Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Germany on 9 November 1923, during which it became soaked in the blood of one of the SA men who died. It subsequently became one of the most revered objects of the NSDAP. It was used in ceremonies in which new flags for party organizations were consecrated by the Blood Flag when touched by it.



Grimminger attended elementary school in his youth. He was then trained as a model carpenter. He entered the Imperial German Army when he was sixteen years old and served during World War I. Mechanic in an air regiment
between 1914 and 1917, he fought in the Gallipoli Campaign
and after one year destined in Palestine, where he fought against the British and Arabs under T.E. Lawrence.
Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (born 16-08-1888 in Tremadog, Wales, † 19-05-1935, in Clouds Hill, England), known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British officer, archaeologist, secret agent and writer. Lawrence was best known for his participation in the British uprising of the Arabs against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Back in Britain Lawrence got off the road on 13-05-1935 with his motorcycle and sustained serious head injuries. He was in a coma for six days and died at the age of 46.





Grimminger was awarded the Iron Cross second class.
At the end of the war, Grimminger was interned in a prison camp on the Bosporus until March 1919. After his return to Germany, he was released from service on 03-04-1919 and worked for the F.F. Kustermann
in Munich.. Working as a tallest he joined the Nazi Party in 1922 NSDAP-Nr.: 759/SS-Nr.: 135
and became a member of the Sturmabteilung, an initially only twelve-strong unit, which was founded for the personal protection of Hitler and which was subsequently increased to over 30 men. He took part in the fights for Coburg in 1922 and the Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 09-11-1923.



















Grimminger was also City council man in Munich. When Heinrich Himmler







Death and burial ground of Grimminger, Jakob.




He reportedly attempted to enter politics, and served as a councilor in Munich, however his past prevented him from continuing this career. In the 1960s he withdrew from the public and died in poverty as a simple street sweeper and in obscurity on 28-01-1969, age 76, in Munich and was buried on the Waldfriedhof of Munich, his grave has new owners now and he was removed to Herzebrock-Clarholz, where the gravestone alas is removed also. On the Waldfriedhof are also buried the next personalities, Generals, Kommandeur IV Flak Regiment, Rudolf Bogatsch,
Generalleutnant der Artillerie, Commander of the Troops Exercise Grounds in Maria ter Heide, Heinrich Curtze, Generalmajor der Infanterie, Kommandeur Wehrmacht Operaties Staff, Ernst Detleffsen, Franz Ritter von Epp,
Generalmajor der Kavallerie, Staff of the Inspector of Land Fortifications West, Gero von Gersdorf, Oberst der Wehrmacht, Highest German Commander on D-Day, Normandy, Ernst Goth, SS Obergruppenführer, Kommandeur General II SS Panzerkorps, Paul “Papa” Hausser,













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