Reich Association of German Graduated Farmers

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The Reichsbund Deutscher Diplomlandwirte eV (RDL, also: RDDL) was an advocacy group for trained farmers in Germany. This association was founded in 1933 and formally existed until 1945, in fact until 1943.

The predecessor of the RDL was the Reich Association of Academically Educated Farmers (RagL) founded in Magdeburg in September 1919; it existed until 1932. The successor organization to the RDL was the Association of German Certified Farmers (VDL), today: VDL - Professional Association for Agriculture, Food, Environment eV

Career

On the “15. Reichsbundestag ”of the“ Reichsbund of academically trained farmers ”in 1933, it was renamed“ Reichsbund Deutscher Diplomlandwirte (RDL) ”. The association magazine "Mitteilungen des RagL" is given the title "Der Diplomlandwirt - Mitteilungen des Reichsbund, academically educated farmers eV".

Through the "Law on the preliminary design of the Reich Food and measures to market and price regulation for agricultural products" of 13 September 1933 was Reich built. Through the 1st implementing ordinance for the Reichsnährstandgesetz, the Reichsbund Deutscher Diplomlandwirte was affiliated to the Reichsnährstand, i.e. a corporate member of the Reichsnährstand, which is subject to contributions.

In 1943 the RDL office (in Berlin) is closed and the association magazine “Der Diplomlandwirt” ceases to appear.

In 1945 the Allies confiscated the property of the RDL. In the same year, the first re-founding of professional state associations of certified farmers. In 1948 the "Verband Deutscher Diplomlandwirte eV" (VDL) is founded.

Some well-known officials and members of the RDL

The senior government councilor and SS-Hauptsturmführer Ado Kraemer became managing director of the Reichsbund Deutscher Graduated Farmers in Berlin in 1932. Kraemer was also the editor of the association magazine "Der Diplomlandwirt".

The Reichslandwirtschaftsrat and SS-Obersturmführer Hans Bavendamm was from 1922 to 1945 a member of the Reich Association of German Graduated Farmers (or the Reich Association of Academically Educated Farmers) and from 1936 to 1937 head of the Pomeranian Regional Association of the RDL. After the Second World War, Bavendamm became the managing director of the Association of German Farmers (VDL) from 1955 to 1958.

The agricultural scientist and SS-Unterscharfuhrer Hermann Vogel was Gaufführer of the Reichsbund Deutscher Graduated Farmers in the Gau Süd-Hannover Braunschweig.

Kurt Kummer , SS-Obersturmbannführer , managing director of the Society for the Promotion of Internal Colonization and (since 1937) Ministerial Director in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture, at the same time department head in the Office for Agricultural Policy of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP, was a permanent representative of the Reich Association of German Graduated Farmers.

The members of the RDL included u. a. also the biologist Otto Appel .

Literature of the RDL

  • Reichsbund deutscher Diplomlandwirte (Ed.): “The farmer in the state. National Socialist Farmer Studies ”, edited by the farmer Hans Oechsner, Hanover, M. & H. Schaper Verlag, 3rd edition 1933, 4th edition 1934

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release “100 Years of the VDL Professional Association for Agriculture, Nutrition and Environment” from May 29, 2019, https://www.vdl.de/100-jahre-vdl-berufsverband-agrar-ernaehrung-umwelt-ev/  ; accessed on February 15, 2020
  2. ↑ Gustavo Corni, Horst Gies, "Bread - Butter - Kanonen: The food industry in Germany under Hitler's dictatorship", p. 88, chapter: "The Reichsnährstand as an organization of the Nazi food industry", Verlag Walter de Gruyter, April 2015, https : //books.google.de/books? id = 7l_yCQAAQBAJ & pg = PA88 & lpg = PA88  ; viewed on February 14, 2020
  3. ↑ Jochen Freihold, "Kraemer, Ado (1898-1972)", Society for the History of Wine eV, Personalities of Wine Culture, https://www.geschichte-des-weines.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= 332: kraemer-ado-1898-1972 & catid = 45: personalities-az & itemid = 83  ; accessed on February 15, 2020
  4. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, StAL EL 903-2 Bü 1662 0032