Albert Brummenbaum
Albert Brummenbaum (born August 31, 1892 in Hoffnungsthal near Volberg , Mülheim / Rhein district, † 1953 ) was the main department head in the Reich Ministry of Agriculture (RME). From 1935 to 1945 he worked in the Reichsnährstand (RNSt) Berlin as Reichshauptabteilungsleiter II.
Life
Brummenbaum comes from a Catholic family; his father was a mine manager. He left the secondary school in Koblenz with the Abitur. During the First World War he did military service and was last lieutenant in the reserve . In the years between 1919 and 1923 Brummenbaum was temporarily a member of the Freikorps in the Ehrhardt Brigade and until 1924 also a member of the "Stahlhelm" Association of Former Frontline Soldiers . He completed his studies at the Universities of Halle and Giessen as an animal breeding inspector and certified farmer . From 1921 to 1923 Brummenbaum was an assistant at the animal breeding institute of the University of Halle, where he also received his doctorate. He then became a farmer on the Bacherhof, an ancestral farm in the Sieg district. He joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1930 (membership number: 232 194). From 1931 or 1932 to 1935 he was a member of the SA . On November 9, 1935, he joined the SS (SS membership no .: 274 111), where he quickly made a career: Brummenbaum became SS-Untersturmführer on November 9, 1935 , and SS-Obersturmführer on December 31, 1935 , on January 30, 1936 as SS-Hauptsturmführer , on May 14, 1936 as SS-Sturmbannführer , on January 30, 1939 SS-Obersturmbannführer and finally, seven years after joining the SS, on November 9, 1942, as SS-Standartenführer promoted.
Since October 1, 1935, Brummenbaum was the main department head in the Reichsnährstand (RNSt) in Berlin. There he was the representative of the Reichsnährstand for German animal breeding and chairman of the agricultural-technical potash office. Robert Winnigstedt represented him there in 1944/45 .
Brummenbaum was Dr. Hans Bavendamm in the Reich Ministry of Agriculture, who was there from February 1938 to August 1939 head of Reichsabteilung II A - “Vocational training, technical schools and economic advice”.
On October 1, 1944, Brummenbaum was awarded the War Merit Cross .
He died in 1953.
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- Andreas Dornheim, "Race, Space and Autarky - Expert Opinions on the Role of the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture in the Nazi Era", date of submission: March 31, 2011, fn. 293 on p. 76, in: https: // www. bmel.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/Ministerium/RolleReichsministeriumNSZeit.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
- CIA (ed.), “Who is Who in Nazi Germany”, 1944, p. 54, https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/WHO%27S%20WHO%20IN%20NAZI%20GERMANY%201944_0001.pdf
- Baden-Württemberg State Archive, Ludwigsburg, archive signature StAL EL 903/2 Bü 1662
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brummenbaum, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brummenbaum, Albrecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil servant and agricultural functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hope Valley (Rösrath) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1953 |