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Blood Flag (Third Reich, Germany)

Blutfahne

Image byAntónio Martins andMark Sensen

• Blood Flag -Blutfahne

• National Socialist German Workers' Party -Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei/ NSDAP/Nazi Party
• Third Reich 1933-1945
• Index of all German Pages

• The Blood-Banner and its bearer: Jakob Grimminger
• Blutfahne in theAxis History Factbook byMarcus Wendel

Blood Flag
Blutfahne

TheNSDAP Blood Flag of theMunich (Bavaria) 9 November 1923Putsch was thecompany flag of the 5th MunichSturmAbteilung (Stormtroopers) Company. The flag was confiscated by the MunichGreen Police after they opened fire on theNSDAP (Nazi Party) revolutionary formation in front of the BavarianFeldherrenhalle (Fallen Heroes' Hall). The Blood Flag (Blutfahne) was recovered from the Munich Police in 1925, remounted on a two part black pole with a special unique wreath flag top, the pole also contained a dedication plate listing the names of those killed in the Munich Putsch, whose blood by the way was also on the flag. The flag was borne by Traumbauer during the Putsch, and after 1925 at the party rallies by Grimminger. The flag was kept in the MunichNSDAP HQ called theBrown House, which had a flag museum in the downstairs hallway, that is until the U.S. 8th Air Force destroyed the building as well as most ofMunich during the war. Parts of the flag were recoved by an American soldier upon the liberation and occupation of Munich in 1945. Copyright © B.Weed Collections 1996, All Rights Reserved.
Ben Weed, 17 November 1996

The statement that the flag was destroyed by American bombing and that an American soldier picked up fragments is probably incorrect. (Most likely vain bragging and wishful thinking if an American truly has fragments of something.) There have been repeated rumours in recent years that the Russians have the intact flag... Jakob Grimminger was the flag bearer. He died in obscurity in 1969. The flag was last seen in public in 1944.
T. F. Mills, 4 June 1999

TheBlutfahne was though to have been made sacrosanct by the blood of themartyrs (i.e. the 16Nazis who died during thePutsch) and was used tobless new party banners during the Nürnberg rallies by Hitler touching the new banner while holding theBlutfahne.
Marcus Wendel, 26 June 1999

[Quoting fromDavis 1994:]

On all ceremonial parades and gatherings the Blutfahne was always borne by Jakob Grimminger... Jakob Grimminger...was born on 25 April 1892. He served in the German Army during the Great War with sufficient distinction to be awarded the ImperialIron Cross, 2nd Class. After the war [he] joined theNazi Party and was an early member of the SS. He participated in the Munich Putsch of 9 November 1923. Later he was appointed to be the official bearer of theBlutfahne, and attained the rank of SS-Standartenführer; he was also appointed a Councillor for the City ofMunich. He survived the Second World War and the period of post-war Allied occupation, after which, it is believed, he managed to obtain work as a street sweeper. Grimminger died in Munich in obscurity and poverty on 28 January 1969, at the age of seventy-seven.

The photograph onwww.nuernberg.de shows the described ritual at Nuremberg in 1934.
Santiago Tazón, 18 November 2001