Gustav Behrens (agricultural functionary)

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Gustav Behrens (born February 2, 1899 in Ahstedt, district of Marienburg (Hanover) ; † July 3, 1948 in Ahstedt) was a German farmer, SA group leader and Nazi agricultural functionary, including from 1937 to 1945 Reichsobmann in the Reichsnährstand and thus permanent deputy of the Reichsbauernführer .

Career in National Socialism

As a member of the NSDAP since May 4 or June 21, 1925, Behrens was an old fighter ( membership number 3,261) and from 1927 to 1933 he was a local group leader of Garbolzum near Hildesheim ( Hanover province ). His last rank in the SA was Gruppenführer, to which he was appointed on November 9, 1942.

As a wealthy beet farmer from Ahstedt near Hildesheim, he was chairman of the main association of the German sugar industry. From September 1933 to May 1937 Behrens was the district farmer leader of the Marienburg district farming community. In the same month he was appointed head of Reich Main Department III (market regulation) of the Reich Nutrition Stand. After the unsuccessful "Meinberg Revolt", Behrens initially held the provisional post of Reich Chairman of Wilhelm Meinberg in April . He thus became the permanent deputy of the Reichsbauernführer Richard Walther Darré in Berlin and remained so until May 1945. The Reichsobmann was appointed by the Reich Chancellor at the suggestion of the Reichsbauernführer. After Darré was released, Herbert Backe , now acting Reich Food Minister , brought Behrens to the Ministry and made him head of department. This department formed the entire Reichsnährstand , which was thus brought even closer to the Ministry. At the same time, Behrens was a member of the Reich Advisory Board for Food and Agriculture.

Fonts

  • Das Landvolk im Krieg , in: The production battle in the war , ed. from the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Berlin 1940, pp. 17–30.
  • Nevertheless and nevertheless! At the turn of the year 1943/44, in: Wochenblatt der Landesbauernschaft Mecklenburg. Official organ of the Reichsnährstand, Volume 28, No. 1, January 1, 1944, pp. 1f.

literature

  • Andreas Dornheim : Race, Space and Autarky. Expert opinion on the role of the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture in the Nazi era. Developed for the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Bamberg 2011, v. a. P. 74 ( online , PDF file; 1.8 MB).
  • Gustavo Corni , Horst Gies : bread-butter-cannons. The food industry in Germany under Hitler's dictatorship. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, v. a. P. 210.
  • Michael Buddrus (Ed.): Mecklenburg in the Second World War. The meetings of the Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the NS management bodies of the Gau Mecklenburg 1939–1945, an edition of the minutes of the meeting. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2009, v. a. P. 995.

swell

  • Federal Archives Berlin, PK files, SA files and holdings R 16I (personal files of the German Reichsbauernrat), No. 4.
  • Weekly newspaper of the Mecklenburg State Farmers' Association, February 4, 1939 (for the 40th birthday)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ different information in Dornheim, p. 74 and Buddrus, p. 995.
  2. ^ Buddrus, p. 995.
  3. ↑ Dornheim, p. 74.
  4. ^ Buddrus, p. 222, note 114.
personal data
SURNAME Behrens, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi agricultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahstedt , District of Marienburg (Hanover)
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1948
Place of death Ahstedt , District of Marienburg (Hanover)