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He was born in Belgrado , near Buenos Aires, Argentina to a German father and half- Swedish, half-German mother. There exists nothing to indicate either of his parents were as fanatical about clinging to their ethnic heritage as the families of other top Nazis. This is not to say they were completely assimilative , but Darre's personal upbringing was broad enough to allow him to learn and gain fluency in four languages: English, Spanish, German, and French.
He moved to Germany in the 1920's and did not complete his PhD studies until 1929; at the comparatively old age of 34. As a young man in Germany Darré initially joined the "Artamans", a 'Volkish' youth group who were committed to returning to the land. It was against this backdrop that Darré began to develop the idea that the Nordic race should be tied to the soil in what came to be known as "Blut und Boden". Amongst those who heard and were impressed by these arguments was Heinrich Himmler, himself one of the Artamans. He went on to become an active Nazi and in the Summer of 1930 he set up an agrarian political apparatus to recruit farmers into the NSDAP. Darré saw three main roles for this apparatus: to exploit unrest in the countryside as a weapon against the urban government; to win over the peasants as staunch Nazi supporters; to gain a constituency of people who could be used as settlers to displace the Slavs in future conquests in the east. In all he was fairly successful in turning the countryside to national socialism.
Soon after the Nazis had come to power, from June 1933 to May 1942, Darré served as the Reichsminister of Food and Agriculture, Director of the Reich and Settlement Office ('Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt' or RuSHA), and Reich Peasant Leader. He played a leading part in setting up the SS Race and Resettlement Office, a fiercely racist, anti-Semitic organization. He developed a plan for "Rasse und Raum" (race and space, or territory) which provided the ideological background for the Nazi expansive policy. Darré strongly influenced SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler in his goal to create a German racial aristocracy based on selective breeding. This policy led to the annihilation of millions of non-Germans until the end of the war. Himmler would later break with Darré, whom he saw as too theoretical and he was generally on bad terms with Hjalmar Schacht, particulary as Germany suffered poor harvests in the mid 1930sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 Events and trends Technology Jet engine invented Link Trainer invented Sc. Darré was captured in 1945 and tried at the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings (the Ministry Case, 1947-49). Sentenced to 5 years in prison, he was released in 1950 and died in MunichMunich ( German: Munchen ) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. Behind Berlin and Hamburg, Munich is Germany's third largest city with a population of about 1. 261 million ( as of 2003). It is located on the river Isar. History The se on 5 September, 1953 of liver failure.
Darré's writings have proven fairly influential on those modern day right wing extremists who also believe in the decadence of urban life and the nobility of self-sufficiency. His two main writings were Das Bauerntum als Lebensquell der nordischen Rasse (1928) and Neuadel aus Blut und Boden(1934), translated into English as "The Peasantry as Life Source of the Nordic Race" and "A New Nobility of Blood and Soil" respectively.
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