Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (born 1896)

Herbert Backe

German Nazi politician and SS functionary (1896–1947)

Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe was a German politician and SS-Obergruppenführer who served as State Secretary and Reichsminister 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…