Hans Bavendamm

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Hans Bavendamm as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Hans Bavendamm (born May 29, 1896 in Berlin , † April 12, 1974 in Hanover ) was a German civil servant and agricultural functionary.

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After attending school and studying, which he completed with a doctorate in 1922 , Bavendamm joined the agricultural administration, where he first became director of the agricultural school in Bergen on Rügen in 1924 . During his studies he became a member of the Academic Song Board Berlin .

In December 1928 Bavendamm joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( membership number 177.024). In March 1933 he was elected for the NSDAP in the Belgard constituency in the provincial parliament of the Pomeranian province ; the provincial parliament was abolished in the same year.

From 1922 to 1945 he was a member of the Reichsbund Deutscher Diplomlandwirte (RDL) or its predecessor organization, the Reichsbund of academically trained farmers, and from 1936 to 1937 head of the Pomeranian Regional Association of the RDL.

Since 1934 Bavendamm was also a member of the Schutzstaffel (membership number 105,577), in which he last held the rank of Obersturmführer.

From 1938 Bavendamm was in the main administrative office of the Reichsbauernführer in Berlin, the head of the Reichsnährstand , head of the department “Technical Schools and Business Consulting”. He himself stated that he had received the rank of Reich Agricultural Council there in 1942. In other sources, the terms Agriculture and Higher Agriculture Council appear for the late 1930s and early 1940s.

During the Second World War , Bavendamm was active in the Caucasus from autumn 1942 , before he was head of the land management company Ukraine (LBGU) from July 1943 to autumn 1944 . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , but was handed over to the Americans in August 1945, who interned him until around 1948. During his internment he was interrogated as a witness in the context of the Nuremberg Trials , where he was asked in particular about the participation of the Reichsnährstand in the Nazi government's preparations for war (establishment of food supplies, self-sufficiency policy, etc.) and about the use of foreign workers in German agriculture during the war has been.

In the post-war period Bavendamm worked from 1955 to 1958 as managing director of the Association of German Graduate Farmers in Hanover.

His brother was the botanist Werner Bavendamm .

Fonts

  • The German homeland movement . 1922. (dissertation)
  • Rural education and counseling . In: K. Maier: Structure and order of German agriculture . Berlin 1939.
  • Graduate farmer (= sheets on vocational studies. Professions for high school graduates, vol. 3). 1959.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 22.
  2. ^ Theodor Wengler : The Pomeranian Provincial Association. Directory of the members of the Provincial Parliament , 2008, p. 156.
  3. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, StAL EL 903-2 Bü 1662 0032
  4. ^ Paperback of public life , Vol. 7, p. 299.
  5. ↑ From a qualified farmer to a qualified agricultural engineer to a Bachelor / Master degree - 100 years of the VDL Federal Association , 2019, p. 156.
personal data
SURNAME Bavendamm, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and agricultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1974
Place of death Hanover