The Freiherr von Blomberg family was typically based around North-Rhine-Westfalia and Lower Saxony, though Bavarian extensions are frequent.
Of the Bavarian branch, one member of the family (diametrically opposed to Heinrich Ulrich) was a devout Protestant, Friedrich Freiherr von Blomberg.
Little more than the following details of him are known: quoted from contemporary archival sources “in a church, in the chapel under the north façade, we can find an altar-painting of the Holy Nicolaus, patron-saint of the boatsmen.
[citation needed] The Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold holds all Prussian scientific and military archives of the time.
[dubious – discuss] This was followed by another move in 1814 to do the same in Hamburg, for the same reason – both cities shortly were part of the French Empire until the Battle of Waterloo turned them German again.
A broken man, he and his wife, Nina, and son moved to Lübeck in 1842 where, never having recovered from this tragedy, he remained until his death in 1846.
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After arguing with the powerful General Kurt von Schleicher in 1929, however, Blomberg was removed from his post and made military commander of East Prussia.
In 1934, Blomberg encouraged Hitler to crack down on SA leader Ernst Röhm and his followers, who he believed posed a serious threat to the army.
A police officer discovered that Gruhn had been a prostitute with a criminal record and reported this to the Gestapo and Göring, who then informed Hitler, who ordered Blomberg to annul the marriage to avoid a scandal and preserve the integrity of the army.
Blomberg refused to annul the marriage, and consequently resigned all of his posts on 27 January 1938 when Göring threatened to make his wife's past public knowledge.
Spending World War II in obscurity, Blomberg was captured by the Allies in 1945, after which time he gave evidence at the Nuremberg Trials.