Richard Walther Darré. Der “Reichsbauernführer”, die nationalsozialistische “Blut und Boden”-Ideologie und Hitlers Machteroberung

Among the leaders of the Nazi party, Richard Walther Darré (1895–1953) is an often overlooked figure. He joined the leadership circles of the party rather late, in the August of 1930, and it was only a little earlier, on 1 June 1930, when he had finally formalized his long-standing affinity to the NSDAP and had joined the party as a member (p. 150). Yet Darré’s importance for the Nazi seizure of power in January 1933, and thus for the genocidal policies of the Third Reich, can hardly be overestimated. When he moved to Munich in August 1930, Darré was tasked with building up the Agrarian Policy Apparatus (Agrarpolitischer Apparat, ApA) of the party. Up to that point, agrarian producers had not really featured among those social groups that the NSDAP targeted as potential members and voters. Only in 1928 had the party clarified that point 17 of the...

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