11 Facts About Eugen Grimminger

Franz Eugen Grimminger was a member of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany.

Eugen Grimminger read books about Mahatma Gandhi and Buddhism and left the protestant church.

Eugen Grimminger became an advocate of non-violence and a vegetarian in 1919.

The young married couple settled in Stuttgart, where Grimminger was employed as an auditor at the Association of Agricultural Cooperatives.

In 1935 Eugen Grimminger lost his job because of his being married to a Jewish woman.

Two years later, Eugen Grimminger became a self-employed certified auditor.

Eugen Grimminger helped people to flee to Switzerland, for which fake documents were necessary.

In 1942 Eugen Grimminger took over the book-keeping office of his friend Robert Scholl, who had been denounced for "anti-state statements" and had to serve a four month prison sentence.

Eugen Grimminger was imprisoned in the Zuchthaus Ludwigsburg until April 1945.

Eugen Grimminger was involved in animal welfare and was chairman of the Tierschutzverein Stuttgart for many years.

Eugen Grimminger founded the Grimminger Foundation for Anthropozoonosis Research to research and control animal diseases that are transmissible to humans.