Local farmers guide
The Ortsbauernführer (OBF) was the head of the smallest or lowest unit in the establishment of the Reichsnährstand during the Nazi era . He thus represented the local peasantry , usually a village or a community in which he himself was resident. He did not have his own administrative apparatus, but had to deal with local leaders such as the mayor and local group leaders of the NSDAP. The local farmer's leader was only extremely rarely a state or party sovereign. Several local farming communities were combined to form a district farming community (around 52,000 in 1938). A local farmer did not have to be a member of the NSDAP ; in fact, it is more likely to be less than half that.
literature
- Meyers Lexikon, 8th edition, 8th volume, Leipzig 1940, column 707 ("Ortsbauernschaft").
- W. Benz, H. Graml, H. Weiß (eds.): Encyclopedia of National Socialism , 5th edition, Munich 2007, p. 750 ("Reichsnährstand").
- Caroline Wagner: The NSDAP in the village. A social history of the Nazi seizure of power in Lippe . Aschendorff, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-402-06795-1 . [not evaluated]
- Daniela Münkel : National Socialist Agricultural Policy and Everyday Farmers' Life. Campus , Frankfurt am Main 1996.