Nazi Martyr - Andreas Bauriedl was an early member of the Nazi Party. He worked as a hatter in Munich and was a veteran of the German Army in World War I. Bauriedl's name would be lost to history were it not for his being involved in the well known but unsuccessful Nazi Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Bavaria, on November 9, 1923, where Hitler tried to seize the Bavarian government. Refusing to follow orders to disperse, the Munich Police opened fire on the marchers, with Bauriedl being hit in the abdomen, killing him and causing him to fall on the Nazi flag, which had fallen to the ground when its flag bearer, Heinrich Trambauer, was severely wounded. Trambauer had carried the flag Nazi flag from the Burgerbräukeller to the Feldherrnhalle were the shooting occurred. Someone removed the flag from the staff and left the scene with it tucked inside his jacket and with Bauriedl's blood soaked into it. The flag was given to a Karl Eggers, who kept the flag safe. Later the flag was presented to Hitler after his release from prison who in turn entrusted it to his fledgling SS for safekeeping in 1926. Trambauer continued as the Nazi party flag bearer but would later receive a fractured skull during a street fight with Communists and never recovered, lingering until 1942 before dying from the injury. SS Sturmbannführer Jakob Grimminger became the sole bearer of the "Blutfahne" (The Blood Flag) from then on and when not used in public, it was enshrined at the Braun Haus in Munich under a special honor guard. The whereabouts of the flag, with Bauriedl's blood soaked into it, is unknown and may have been destroyed when the building was bombed in 1943 and again in 1945 or captured by an American GI.
Nazi Martyr - Andreas Bauriedl was an early member of the Nazi Party. He worked as a hatter in Munich and was a veteran of the German Army in World War I. Bauriedl's name would be lost to history were it not for his being involved in the well known but unsuccessful Nazi Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Bavaria, on November 9, 1923, where Hitler tried to seize the Bavarian government. Refusing to follow orders to disperse, the Munich Police opened fire on the marchers, with Bauriedl being hit in the abdomen, killing him and causing him to fall on the Nazi flag, which had fallen to the ground when its flag bearer, Heinrich Trambauer, was severely wounded. Trambauer had carried the flag Nazi flag from the Burgerbräukeller to the Feldherrnhalle were the shooting occurred. Someone removed the flag from the staff and left the scene with it tucked inside his jacket and with Bauriedl's blood soaked into it. The flag was given to a Karl Eggers, who kept the flag safe. Later the flag was presented to Hitler after his release from prison who in turn entrusted it to his fledgling SS for safekeeping in 1926. Trambauer continued as the Nazi party flag bearer but would later receive a fractured skull during a street fight with Communists and never recovered, lingering until 1942 before dying from the injury. SS Sturmbannführer Jakob Grimminger became the sole bearer of the "Blutfahne" (The Blood Flag) from then on and when not used in public, it was enshrined at the Braun Haus in Munich under a special honor guard. The whereabouts of the flag, with Bauriedl's blood soaked into it, is unknown and may have been destroyed when the building was bombed in 1943 and again in 1945 or captured by an American GI.
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