Hanns Deetjen

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Hanns Deetjen (born August 28, 1903 in Plön ; † 1995 ) was a German Nazi agricultural functionary and later State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests .

Life path

Before 1945

Hanns Deetjen was born on August 28, 1903 in Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, into a Protestant family. His father was a senior government and school councilor.

After a seven-year apprenticeship on agricultural goods and after studying agriculture at the universities in Göttingen and Halle in the 1920s, Deetjen became a qualified farmer . Between 1929 and 1933 he worked in the press department of the German Agricultural Council (DLR), the central organization of the chambers of agriculture, initially as a clerk and later as a department head. At the same time, Deetjen was a member of the Reichslandbund (RLB) from 1921 to 1933 .

After the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” in September 1933, Deetjen became Walther Darré's personal press adjutant (and remained so until 1944). Since December 31, 1931, he was in charge of the then newly established Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) of the SS . In 1932 Darré also founded the monthly German Agricultural Policy (from 1939 Odal. Monthly for Blood and Soil ), of which Deetjen became editor from May 1, 1939. In 1933 Deetjens superior Darré became head of the NSDAP party office for agricultural policy and chairman of the Reichsführergemeinschaft of the united agricultural associations. On May 28, 1933, Darré was appointed Reichsbauernführer, and on June 29, 1933, he was also appointed Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture. Deetjen was considered a close confidante of Darré.

Deetjen became an SA member in October 1933 and also a member of the SS in May 1934 (SS membership number: 260.749). He probably did not join the NSDAP ( NSDAP membership number : 4.158.120) until May 1937. Deetjen soon rose in the SS: in October 1934 as SS-Untersturmführer, in April 1936 as SS-Obersturmführer, on April 20, 1941 as SS-Obersturmbannführer. He was the bearer of the SS sword of honor and skull ring of the SS . In the SS's own “ Research Community of German Ahnenerbe ”, Deetjen was in charge of the multi-volume work “Forest and Tree in the Aryan-Germanic Spiritual and Cultural History”.

Deetjen was taken on as a civil servant in the Reich Ministry of Agriculture, was head of Department W ("Science") in the staff office at Reichsbauernführer Darré and from 1935 also his press officer, from May 1, 1939 head of Section 1 and editor of the magazine "Odal. Monthly for Blood and Soil ”. In 1940 Deetjen became Reich Main Department Head (RHAL) in Section IV C for Press, Enlightenment, Propaganda of the Reichsnährstand (RNSt) and head of the "Enlightenment" group at the Reichsbauernführer. Section IV C remained in charge of the "steering" of radio until the Second World War and issued instructions for the press and radio. In December 1941 or January 1942 Deetjen was promoted to the Reichslandwirtschaftsrat (RLR).

Deetjen was a member of the Reichsbauernrat established by Darré on September 19, 1933 , until it was dissolved again on April 22, 1941 due to the war.

Together with Hans Bodenstedt , Hanns Deetjen was the editor of the Nazi publishing house “Ährenlese”, in which titles such as “Once a soldier - always a soldier”, “Gebot der Erde” and “Death and Victory” appeared. He was also the author of essays such as “Blood and soil: romance or reality”, “Blood care through physical exercise” or “Food is a weapon! Agricultural enlightenment in the war ”as a writer.

Deetjen gave a lecture in a small circle of the German Club on January 15, 1943 , in which he a. a. demanded: "Ukraine should pay for the war".

After 1945

After the war, Deetjen was the general manager of the Lower Saxony Rural Association.

Hanns Deetjen shortened and revised Walther Darré's diaries; the originals were burned on the instructions of Darré's second wife, Alma.

On July 1, 1955, Deetjen became State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests during Heinrich Hellweges' government of the German Party (DP) , which had been in office in Hanover since May 26, 1955. Hanns Deetjen remained State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Agriculture until 1965.

Deetjen was chairman of the supervisory board of Niedersächsische Landgesellschaft mbH, deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Emsland GmbH ( Johann Dietrich Lauenstein was Managing Director of Emsland GmbH from 1951 to 1963 ) and member of the supervisory board of Hannoversche Landes-Kreditanstalt Mittelweser AG. He was a member of the Lions Club .

Deetjen died in 1995 at the age of 92.

Publications by Hanns Deetjen (selection)

  • Deetjen, Hans, “The great probation”, in: Reichsnährstand (ed.), “German Calendar 1943 for City and Country”, Reichsnährstandsverlag GmbH, branch in Bohemia and Moravia, 1943
  • Deetjen, Hans (ed.), "Forest and tree in the Aryan-Germanic intellectual and cultural history"
  • Walther Darré , “About blood and soil. Speeches and essays ”, ed. v. Hanns Deetjen and Wolfgang Clauss. Rather-Verlag, Munich 1940
  • Deetjen, Hans, “Blood and Soil: Romanticism or Reality”, in: Weber, JJ (editor): Illustrirte Zeitung Leipzig, No. 4684 of December 20, 1934, Leipzig, JJ Weber-Verlag, 1934
  • Deetjen, Hanns, "Blood maintenance through physical exercises", in: Communications of the Reichsschule Burg Neuhaus (Reichsschule für physical exercises of the Reichsnährstandes), April 1939, pp. 6-8
  • Deetjen, Hanns, “Food is a weapon! Agricultural Enlightenment in War ", from p. 301, in: Deutsche Agrarpolitik, Volume 1, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, F. Eher Nachf., 1942

Literature and Sources

  • National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany, Documentation Center of the State Archives Administration of the GDR (ed.), "Brown Book of War and Nazi Criminals in the Federal Republic and in West Berlin - State, Economy, Administration, Army, Justice, Science", 3rd, revised and extended edition, Staatsverlag der Deutschen Demokratie Republik, Berlin (East) 1968, p. 362
  • Gustavo Corni, Horst Gies, “Bread - Butter - Cannons: The Food Industry in Germany under Hitler's Dictatorship”, Verlag De Gruyter, 1997, (Chapter: “The Reichsnährstand as an organization of the Nazi food industry”), p. 142 (there in particular also fn. 297); https://books.google.de/books?id=7l_yCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Cebulla, "Radio and rural society 1924-1945", Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2004, p. 261, https://books.google.de/books?id=oo1E8KOME18C&pg=PA261
  2. ↑ s. “Promotions in the administrative office of the Reichsbauernführer”, in: Gartenbauwirtschaft, Wirtschaftszeitung des Deutschen Gartenbaues, 59th year, No. 3, January 22, 1942, p. 2, http://gartentexte-digital.ub.tu-berlin.de /archiv/Gartenbauwirtschaft/Jg.59/Nr._03.pdf
  3. ↑ Peter Josef Belli, "The Lautawerk der Vereinigte Aluminum-Werke AG (VAW) from 1917 to 1948: an armaments company in regional, national, international and political contexts: (also a contribution to the industrial history of Niederlausitz)", LIT Verlag Münster, 2012 , 762 pages, p. 308, there also fn. 1292, https://books.google.de/books?id=JRL6P-FkNYYC&pg=PA308&lpg=PA308  ; see Götz Aly, "Race and Class - Research on the German Being", S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, 253 pages, pp. 79/80
  4. ^ Rolf Peter Saal, "Friends in Chile - The" Valdivia "program", p. 68, in: Fred Huck (editor-in-chief), Der Lion (members' magazine), German edition, January 2002, "50 years of the Lions Club", https://www.lions.de/documents/10181/135583/Ausgabe%2B01.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Deetjen, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gramss, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi agricultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Plön
DATE OF DEATH 1995