Plaque Robert von Greim Bebenhausen

In Bebenhausen Cemetery, on the inside of the perimeter wall of the monastery, is the plaque commemorating Field Marshal Robert von Greim, the last commander of the German Luftwaffe during World War II, is located at the grave of his wife and her mother, who had family relationships with Bebenhausen.

Robert Greim, from 1918 Knight of Greim was a German Army and Air Force officer (from 1945 Generalfield Marshal) and after the replacement of Hermann Göring for a few weeks the last Commander in Chief of the German Luftwaffe in World War II.
Greim surrendered to the Americans, saying, "I am the head of the German air force, but I have no air force." He was originally supposed to participate in the Berlin-Karlshorst surrender negotiations on May 8 - but was represented by Colonel General of the Luftwaffe and Commander of the 5th Air Fleet Hans-Jürgen Stumpff due to his foot injury. He was taken to a hospital in Salzburg, where he learned that the Americans wanted to transfer him to Soviet captivity. On May 24, 1945, Ritter von Greim committed suicide in Salzburg. He took the poison capsule that Adolf Hitler had presented to him in the Führerbunker at the end of April 1945. Greim's grave is located in the Salzburg municipal cemetery.

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