Oat war

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Reichsjägermeister Hermann Göring with Oberforstmeister Walter Frevert and Ulrich Scherping during the assessment of drop poles
Presentation of further bars, 1939

Current historiography describes a dispute in the winter of 1942/43 between two authorities of the Nazi state , the Reich Chancellery and the Reich Hunting Office, a department of the Reich Forestry Office , as the oat war . In the dispute, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler were able to assert their interests against Adolf Hitler and Reichsleiter Martin Bormann .

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The hunting-obsessed Hermann Göring, who, among many others, also held the title of Reichsjägermeister, was always interested in strong hunting trophies ; Trophy orientation was a hallmark of National Socialist hunting practice . In the state hunting grounds he had created and regularly hunted, Göring therefore had the game fed with power food in winter and spring; especially with oats , bran and sesame cake. Even as it in World War II for the German population came mainly in the cities to supply bottlenecks food rations be cut had been fed on his instructions potatoes and oats Wild. Likewise, large amounts of fruit and biscuits from the “War Winter Aid ” of the German People's Winter Relief Organization, intended for soldiers and civilians , were misused. In the Rominter Heide , a preferred hunting area of ​​Göring, the order of the imperial leadership to grow grain for the needy population was undermined by the chief forester there, Walter Frevert , in order to produce oats for the deer hunted there. Various food offices and the management of the Ostmark complained about it. The head of the party chancellery , Martin Bormann, received corresponding information.

At the height of the Russian campaign around the turn of the year 1942/43, oats required for feeding small children were confiscated in state hunting grounds for feeding wild animals by order of the Reichsjagdamt. The oats intended for making baby food should be fed to red deer .

In addition to the Reich Chancellery, General Forester Friedrich Alpers , State Secretary in the Reich Forestry Office, criticized the feeding of game with staple foods in times of war as irresponsible. In the following dispute, the responsible Oberstjägermeister and SS brigade leader , Ulrich Scherping , was initially suspended. Göring, who had increasingly lost interest in war and politics and devoted himself mainly to his collections and hunting, was able to secure the support of Heinrich Himmler in the dispute over the use of oat , who had visited him in autumn 1942 to hunt in the Reichsjägerhof Rominten . The two prevailed against the Reich Chancellery. Alpers subsequently took his leave and died at the front in 1944. Scherping returned to his post.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefan Dirscherl, Animal and Nature Conservation in National Socialism: Legislation, Ideology and Practice , ISBN 978-3-8471-0029-4 , V&R unipress, 2012, p. 143
  2. ^ Hermann Kellenbenz, Society for Social and Economic History (ed.), Economic Development and Environmental Influence (14th-20th Century): Reports of the 9th Working Conference of the Society for Social and Economic History (30.3-1.4.1981) , ISBN 978- 3-5150-3946-8 , Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982, p. 119 (Snippet)
  3. ↑ Tobias Kaufmann, The media discourse on hunting in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area: A qualitative content analysis of the Garmischer Tagblatt since 1925 , Bachelor thesis at the Technical University of Munich, 2017, p. 5 (with reference to source: Rubner 1985, p. 174)
  4. Jump up against the Bambi plague? , Der Spiegel , edition 21/1998, p. 69
  5. ↑ The oats were also used to feed the hunting dogs, according to Archive for Social History , Volume 27, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Institute for Social History Braunschweig-Bonn (Ed.), P. 446 (Snippet)
  6. ↑ Paul-Joachim Hopp and Wolfgang Weitz, Walter Frevert - Der Macht Verschallen (Review of: Andreas Gautschi , Walter Frevert: Eine Weidmanns Wechsel undwege , Nimrod), July 12, 2017, Wild und Hund
  7. ↑ Uwe Neumärker, Göring's forgotten hunting area: Where the brown deer roared , May 4, 2008, Spiegel Geschichte at Spiegel Online
  8. ^ Wilhelm Bode and Elisabeth Emmert, Jagdwende: from noble hobby to ecological handicraft , Beck'sche Reihe (1242), CH Beck, 2000, ISBN 978-3-4064-5993-1 , pp. 149f.