Adolf Grimme

Adolf Grimme
Adolf Grimme
Prussian Minister of Science, Art and Education
In office 1930–1932
Chancellor	Franz von Papen
Preceded by	Carl Heinrich Becker
Minister of Culture, Lower Saxony
In office 1946–1948

Adolf Berthold Ludwig Grimme (December 31, 1889 – August 27, 1963) was a German politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was Cultural Minister during the later years of the Weimar Republic and after World War II, during the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany. During the Third Reich, he was arrested as a member of the German Resistance and sentenced to prison. After the war, he filed a legal complaint against the judge who had condemned him and others. After years of delays, the case was dropped by the prosecutor.

Grimme was born in Goslar, Prussian Hanover, the son of Louise, née Sander (1858-1952) and Adolf Grimme (1854-1906), a train station master. In 1908, he began studying philosophy and German studies, attending universities in Halle, Munich and Göttingen. He was also involved in the free student reform movement. He finished, passing his state exams in philosophy in 1914. In 1922, he became a member of the SPD. He began teaching in 1924. He then became a senior teacher (Oberstudienrat) in Hannover and in 1925, he became the superintendent in Magdeburg. He became the assistant Minister at the Prussian Ministry of Culture, and a year later, the vice president of the provincial school council of Berlin and Mark Brandenburg. In 1930, he became the successor to Carl Heinrich Becker, serving as the last Culture Minister of a democratically elected state government in Prussia. He was removed from this position on July 20, 1932 when the state government was deposed in the Prussian coup.

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