Erich Darré

Erich Darré as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Erich Darré (born August 9, 1902 in Belgrano near Buenos Aires , † after 1946) was a German press officer and SS leader.

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Darré was one of four children of the businessman Richard Darre (1854-1929) and his wife Emilia Berta Eleonore Lagergren (July 20, 1936 in Bad Pyrmont). His older brother was the later Reich Minister of Agriculture, Walter Darré . Darré's maternal uncle was the former mayor of Stockholm .

Probably in the wake of his brother, who from 1930 assumed a leading position in the Nazi movement, Darré joined the NSDAP on September 1, 1931 ( membership number 635.310). In January 1932 he also became a member of the SS (SS no. 20.887).

In the following years Darré took on various posts in the SS apparatus and the Nazi press: From January 15 to June 1932 he was a full-time consultant for family research in the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS (Munich). Subsequently, until September 1933 he was the full-time editor for the cultural part of the NS-Landpost , and then until March 1934 he was the deputy chief editor of the same magazine.

From March 1934 until the end of World War II , Darré was managing director and publishing director of Reichsnährstand Verlags GmbH in Berlin and Blut und Boden Verlag GmbH in Goslar . From July 14, 1934 to April 10, 1935, he was also head of the independent main archive department in the Race and Settlement Main Office.

When the war ended Darré fell into Allied captivity . In the following years he was used as a witness at the Nuremberg trials .

Promotions

• May 27, 1934: SS Obertruppführer
• July 14, 1934: SS-Untersturmführer
• November 20, 1934: SS-Obersturmführer
• September 30, 1935: SS-Hauptsturmführer
• September 13, 1936: SS-Sturmbannführer

Archival material

• Federal Archives: SSO files on Erich Darré

literature

• Seniority list of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel , 1996.