Reich Minister Richard Walther Darre greets Hitler at the train station at the time of the harvest festival.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 05417

Overview

Caption: Reich Minister Richard Walther Darre greets Hitler at the train station at the time of the harvest festival.

[Joe White has also identified this Nazi official as Kurt Daluege (Chief of the Ordnungspolizei)]
Photographer: Heinrich Hoffmann/Studio of H. Hoffmann
Date: Circa 1933 - 1935
Locale: Berlin, [Berlin] Germany
Variant Locale: Berlin-Buckow
Berlin-Mariendorf
Berlin-Ploetzensee
Berlin-Reinickendorf
Berlin-Tempelhof
Berlin-Wannsee
Berlin-Schlachtensee
Berlin-Duppel
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Richard Freimark

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Dr. Nancy and Richard Freimark
Published Source: Adolf Hitler: Bilder aus dem leben des fuehrers - Cigaretten/Bilderdienst Altona/Bahrenfeld - p. 26

Keyword: CIGARETTE CARD CLOSE-UPS DALUEGE, KURT DARRE, RICHARD WALTHER HANDSHAKING HEADS OF STATE HITLER, ADOLF NAZI OFFICIALS PROPAGANDA (NAZI) SS (SCHUTZSTAFFELN)
Photo Designation: NAZI OFFICIALS/PERSONALITIES OF THE THIRD REICH -- Names (D)

Biography: Richard Walther Darre (1895-1953) studied agriculture and economics, specializing in animal breeding and genetics. In 1930, Darre joined the NSDAP and became Hitler's deputy for agricultural matters. His job was to organize farmers' support of Hitler. To help expand the NSDAP's appeal, Darre created the first Nazi agricultural program and coined the term "Blut und Boden." In 1931, he was promoted to head of the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) and received the rank of SS-Gruppenfuehrer. He also became Reichsbauernfuehrer in charge of the Office for Agricultural Policy, from 1934 to 1942. Darre also published the newspapers "NS-Landpost" and "Deutsche Agrarpolitik." As Reich Minister for Nutrition and Agriculture, he helped adopt the Heredity Farm Law, which set fixed market prices and attempted curb migration from the farms to the city. In 1936, he received the Golden Party Badge, but it marked the decline of his career. Darre's vision of agrarian society and the nobility of peasants clashed with Goerings Four Year Plan aimed at maximizing production and industry. Consequently, he lost his RuSHA post in 1938. After he criticized Himmler and Hitler for their handling of the war, he was banished to his hunting lodge in Schorfheide, Germany. After the war he was arrested and sentenced to seven years imprisonment in the Wilhelmstrasse Trial, but was released in 1950.

Source: Encyc. of Thrd Reich (Zentner) 1:182-183; Encyc. of Thrd Reich (Snyder), p. 61