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8 Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-f Prag-Bubentsch, 15. OKT 1342 Sachsenweg SD-Leitsabteilung Prag Fernsprecher 774-44 III B - PA 4533/42 Bütn E0 ades 1 e0 o dkc In D.he av Flahcen BANE 20. OCT. 1942 tep uy Personal speakers of the Herr Staatsskretär at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. G i e s , Prag. The following are the following: G r i m n e n s t·e n von, Josef, Prälat, z.Zt. Karlovy Vary, Grand Hotel Pupp. Vorg.: there. St.S. IV O - 146/42 of 14.9.1942. Annex: - 2 - The previous investigations have revealed: Grimmenstein was born on 13.6.l865 in Grebel near Blu-menau i/Schl. He studied in Jnnsbruck in Kon- vikt, his teachers belonged to the Jesuit Order. Gr. As a student, he was an educator of the Princes Emanuel and Franz Josef of Portugal, with whom he lived in Brombach near Würzburg. In 1889, Gr. became administrator of the foundation of Emperor Franz Josef in Mayerling and was co-operator in Naissau from 189l - 1892, from l895.- 19l7 Probst and city priest in Krem- sier and then abbot and cathedral prelate in Olmütz. After differences with the Czech government he left Olomouc in the year l923 and - standing completely destitutely - in Paris, Marseille and other major cities he was forced to fight through life until Cardinal Frühwirth finally became aware of him and enforced a pension of looo.-- crowns, with which he then lived in Rome from 1927 to 1939. Because of his great relations with the Vatican, Cardinal Pacelli forced the rehab of Grimmenstein and finally his appointment as papal prelates. During his stay in Rome, he made himself known and popular in the German colony because of his willingness to help. When in 1939 the transfer of his pension from Olomouc to Ron as a result of the introduction of the German Foreign Exchange Act - St.S.πb-14ha/42 141