German Nazi politician and SS functionary (1896–1947)
Herbert Backe
Herbert Backe in 1942
Minister Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture
In office 6 April 1944 – 23 May 1945 (Acting from 23 May 1942)
Chancellor
Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Richard Walther Darré
Succeeded by
Position abolished
State Secretary Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture
In office 27 October 1933 – 6 April 1944
Chancellor
Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Hans Joachim von Rohr
Succeeded by
Hans-Joachim Riecke
Personal details
Born
Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe
(1896-05-01)1 May 1896 Batumi, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
6 April 1947(1947-04-06) (aged 50) Nuremberg Prison, Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany
Cause of death
Suicide by hanging
Nationality
German
Political party
Nazi Party
Alma mater
University of Göttingen
Profession
Agronomist
Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe (1 May 1896 – 6 April 1947) was a German politician and SS Senior group leader (SS-Obergruppenführer) in Nazi Germany who served as State Secretary and Minister in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture. He was a doctrinaire racial ideologue, a long-time associate of Richard Walther Darré and a personal friend of Reinhard Heydrich.[1] He developed and implemented the Operation Hunger that envisioned death by starvation of millions of Slavic and Jewish "useless eaters" following Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union.
Operation Hunger was developed during the planning phase of Operation Barbarossa and provided for diverting and redirecting of Ukrainian food stuffs away from central and northern Russia for the benefit of the invading army and the population in Germany. As a result, millions of local civilians died in the German-occupied territories. He was arrested in 1945 at the end of World War II and was due to be tried for war crimes at Nuremberg in the Ministries Trial but he committed suicide in his prison cell in 1947.
Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe (1 May 1896 – 6 April 1947) was a German politician and SS Senior group leader (SS-Obergruppenführer) in Nazi Germany...
The Hunger Plan (German: der Hungerplan; der Backe-Plan) was a partially implemented plan developed by Nazi bureaucrats during World War II to seize food...
and Munitions. May 1942: Darré placed on extended leave of absence. HerbertBacke becomes Acting Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture. August 1942:...
(Wirtschaft): Walther Funk Minister of Agriculture (Landwirtschaft): HerbertBacke Minister of Justice (Justiz): Otto Georg Thierack Minister of Culture...
formulating and prosecuting the genocidal policies of the former regime. HerbertBacke had been the author of the Hunger Plan of 1941, a deliberate strategy...
withdrew the proposed awards of this order to Gauleiter Erich Koch and HerbertBacke. Directing his comments at Göring personally, Hitler ordered that such...
court and sentenced as a Mitläufer (follower) a fine of DM 50,000. HerbertBacke, the former minister for agriculture who should also have been tried...
people through starvation in an action called the Hunger Plan devised by HerbertBacke. Food supplies would be diverted to the German army and German civilians...
researcher for Nazi euthanasia program; in prison cell (11 December 1946) HerbertBacke, German Nazi SS Obergruppenführer; in prison cell (6 April 1947) Irmfried...
were the rich farmlands of Ukraine. The Hunger Plan was developed by HerbertBacke, an agronomist and SS officer, in late 1940 and early 1941 as part of...
Batumi: Irakli Alasania (*1973), Georgian politician, Minister of Defense HerbertBacke (1896–1947), Reich Minister of Food in Nazi Germany Ioseb Bardanashvili...
civilians in Riga and more than 200,000 in Belarus and eastern Poland. HerbertBacke – State Secretary (1933–1944) in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture...
leave until 6 April 1944) 8 years, 327 days NSDAP Hitler 13 Backe, HerbertHerbertBacke (1896–1947) 23 May 1942 (Acting until 6 April 1944) 23 May 1945...
Yezhov, Soviet secret police official, head of the NKVD (d. 1940) 1896 – HerbertBacke, German agronomist and politician (d. 1947) 1896 – Mark W. Clark, American...
1958; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1961; died in prison in 1972 HerbertBacke May 1, 1896 April 6, 1947 50 years, 340 days Responsible for the Hunger...
Haase (a founder member of the Skald), HerbertBacke and Theo Gross; all came under covert investigation, though Backe is said to have been cleared of disloyalty...
railroad and water transportation. The Staatssekretär 'Secretary of State' HerbertBacke was personally nominated by the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern...
American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (b. 1874) 1947 – HerbertBacke, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896) 1950 – Louis Wilkins, American...
people. This became known as the Hunger Plan. Thomas worked closely with HerbertBacke, the de facto chief of Nazi agriculture, in developing this plan. On...
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