German Research Institute for Nutrition and Food

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The German Research Institute for Nutrition and Catering GmbH (DVA / DVA) belonged to the Office Group W of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office of the Reichsführer SS (WVHA) (as of March 1942, Document No. 146, Dachau Concentration Camp Museum). It was founded as a GmbH on January 23, 1939 with initial capital of RM 35,000 from funds from Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke . The founder was the SS leader Oswald Pohl , head of the WVHA. The company was financed by a loan from the Red Cross amounting to 8 million Reichsmarks. The DVA was under the direction of the agricultural scientist SS-Obersturmbannführer Heinrich Vogel.

The tasks of the DVA were the cultivation and research of aromatic and medicinal herbs , the supply of German and foreign markets with "German drugs", the production and mixing of new drugs, the maintenance of laboratories, the acquisition of land and the sale of the products.

The “herb garden” in the Dachau concentration camp (name of the work detail: “Plantage”) and the plantation in the Heppenheim subcamp (name of the work detail: “Dachau”) were the best-known projects.

literature

  • Wolfgang Jacobeit and Christoph Kopke : The biodynamic economy in the concentration camp. The goods of the "German Research Institute for Food and Meals" of the SS from 1939 to 1945 . Trafo-Verlag Weist, Berlin 2002 2 , 133 pages, ISBN 3-89626-128-2 .
  • Daniella Seidl: Between heaven and hell. The 'Plantage' command of the Dachau concentration camp . Utz , Munich 2007. ISBN 3-8316-0729-X .
  • Enno Georg: The economic ventures of the SS . Series of the quarterly books for contemporary history; No. 7. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart 1963.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniella Seidl, 2007. p. 60.