Karl Johannes Zimmermann (30.5.1898 Badisch-Rheinfelden – 15.1.1966 Schäftlarn)

After taking part in the First World War, Karl Johannes Zimmermann was employed as a branch manager in a private bank. After losing his job in 1924, he got a job at the Munich district court in 1925. In 1930, the family man got baptized as a Bible Student. He came into conflict with the new regime for the first time in September 1933. He had distributed Jehovah’s Witnesses leaflets and was sentenced to a fine by the Munich district court as a result. He was arrested on March 24, 1937. However, Zimmermann had in the meantime turned away from the banned organization. Nevertheless, because he had played a key role in re-establishing the underground organization of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1936, he was sentenced to a prison sentence of one year and three months in a judgment dated April 29, 1937. There is no information about the time after his release from prison. After the war, Karl Johannes Zimmermann once again belonged to a Munich community of Jehovah’s Witnesses.