Gebhard Ludwig Himmler

On 3 November 1902 the family moved to Passau, where Joseph Gebhard Himmler taught Greek and Latin at the Königlich humanistisches Gymnasium.

On 9 April 1918, Himmler arrived in Lorraine on the Western Front and then took part in the Battle of Château-Thierry, 65 km east from Paris, as a runner between battalion and regimental headquarters.

In 1919, after the end of the war, Himmler and his brother, Heinrich, left the Munich citizens' militia, the Einwohnerwehr, to join the 21st Rifle Brigade (Schützenbrigade 21) of the paramilitary Freikorps under Franz Ritter von Epp.

In early 1923, Himmler joined the Bund Reichskriegsflagge under Ernst Röhm, who took part in the Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923.

From his appointment as director of the vocational school in Deroystraße, Himmler devoted himself to numerous honorary offices in the Nazi regime and was largely exempted from teaching.

From early 1936, he worked in the head office for technology in the Nazi Party, the Hauptamt für Technik in der NSDAP, and in the Nazi Federation for German Technology (NS-Bund Deutscher Technik), led by Fritz Todt and to which, until 1938, almost all technical-scientific associations, such as the Association of German Engineers (VDI), were connected.

Himmler helped to shape this corporate representative body and exercised the state's political power in a discriminatory and party-political manner.

Until 1946, his family lived at Haus Lindenfycht in Gmund am Tegernsee with Margarete Himmler; during renovation work at the private villa she looked after prisoners at the subcamp of KZ Dachau.

In early March 1946, he was interned at the Emil Köster Leather Factory in Gadeland; later, he was transferred to Bad Fallingbostel on the Lüneburg Heath.

In the European-Afghan Cultural Office in Munich, Himmler, as director (Ministerialdirigent a. D.) and engineer, worked as a study adviser and arranged internships for Afghan students.