Reichsbund Volkstum und Heimat
Reich meeting of the Reichsbund Volkstum und Heimat 1933 in Kassel. Among the guests offering the Hitler salute are Philipp Prinz von Hessen (1st row 2nd from right) and Lieutenant General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1st row 1st from right), photo taken from the Federal Archives
The Reichsbund Volkstum und Heimat was founded in 1933 by Werner Haverbeck . The tasks of the organization were published in a party official announcement of July 27, 1933. The aim was to bring the associations into line in the field of folk culture and homeland maintenance . The management was given to Karl Alexander von Müller . Haverbeck took over the organizational tasks and the publication of the journal Volkstum und Heimat - Blätter für National Socialist Volkstumsarbeit und Lebensbildung from April 1934.
The first Reich Meeting took place from October 5th to 8th, 1933 in Kassel .
It was dissolved in autumn 1934. Only the bird protection associations were forcibly amalgamated in the Reichsbund für Vogelschutz in 1938 .
literature
- The " National Socialist monthly books " and "Volkstum und Heimat", in: Michel Grunewald, Uwe Puschner , ed .: Le Milieu Intellectuel Conservateur en Allemagne, sa Presse es ses Réseaux (1890-1960) - The conservative intellectual milieu in Germany, its press and his networks (1890-1960). Bern 2003, pp. 575 - 616 full text
Web links
- Documents and newspaper articles on the Reichsbund Volkstum und Heimat in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Scheck: Basics of National Socialist cultural policy in Schleswig-Holstein.
- ^ Frank Uekötter : Green Nazis? Reassessing the Environmental History of Nazi Germany . 2007 (English, zeithistorische-forschungen.de [PDF; accessed on July 19, 2018]).