Adolf Berthold Ludwig Grimme (31 December 1889 – 27 August 1963) was a German politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

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.

[1] In 1930, he became the successor to Carl Heinrich Becker, serving as the last Culture Minister of a democratically elected state government in Prussia.

A good defense strategy, which mainly consisted of informing on his fellow Red Orchestra members,[3] enabled him to avoid the death penalty facing him[4] and he was sentenced to three years in a labor prison (Zuchthaus), condemned for "failure to report an attempt at high treason".

[1] Although not given to revenge,[4] on 15 September 1945 Grimme filed a complaint with the state's attorney against Manfred Roeder for his involvement condemning to death or imprisonment 49 members of the Red Orchestra, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hans von Dohnanyi, Arvid Harnack and Günther Weisenborn.

Dated 12 May 1951, the final report by Hans-Jürgen Finck, Lüneburg state's attorney, about the investigation into the complaint filed by Grimme and other surviving Red Orchestra members came to the conclusion that the Reich court martial trials had been conducted "in accordance with the law" (ordnungsgemäß) and the defendants correctly sentenced to death.

"[6][note 1] The case, also pursued by Weisenborn and Greta Kuckhoff, was delayed by the state's attorney in Lüneburg until the end of the 1960s, when it was dropped.

[8] Grimme was a member of the postwar "appointed Landtag" organized by the British military government in their occupation zone.