1. Emil Maurice was Hitler's first personal chauffeur, and was one of several persons of mixed Jewish and ethnic German ancestry to serve in the SS; importantly, despite not meeting the racial purity standards of the SS, Maurice was considered as a German and neither a Jew nor a Mischling under the Nuremberg Laws.
Emil Maurice officially joined the DAP on 1 December 1919 and his party number was 594.
Emil Maurice led the SA stormtroopers in some fights with other groups during those early days.
Hitler later in his book Mein Kampf mentions one fight in particular from November 1921 where Emil Maurice was at the forefront of the SA unit during the fighting.
In July 1921, Emil Maurice became a personal chauffeur for Adolf Hitler.
In March 1923, Emil Maurice became a member of the Stabswache, a small separate bodyguard dedicated to Hitler's service rather than "a suspect mass" of the party, such as the SA.
Hitler became SS member No 1 and Emil Maurice became SS member No 2.
At that time, Emil Maurice became an SS-Fuhrer in the new organization, although the leadership of the SS was assumed by Schreck, the first Reichsfuhrer-SS.
Later when Emil Maurice informed Hitler in December 1927 that he was having a relationship with Hitler's half-niece Geli Raubal, Hitler forced an end to the affair.
Emil Maurice was dismissed from Hitler's personal service in 1928, but allowed to remain a member of the SS.
All SS officers had to prove racial purity back to 1750, and it turned out that Emil Maurice had one-eighth Jewish ancestry: Charles Emil Maurice Schwartzenberger, the founder of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, was his great-grandfather.
Himmler recommended that Emil Maurice be expelled from the SS, along with other members of his family.
Emil Maurice returned to his life as a watchmaker and in 1951 owned a watch shop in Munich.