WW2 german Nazi Third Reich NSDAP reichsnährstand ortsbauernführer large metal enamel sign

large and massive, 50cm X 50cm

The Reichsnährstand had legal authority over everyone involved in agricultural production and distribution. It attempted to interfere in the market for agricultural goods, using a complex system of orders, price controls, and prohibitions, through regional marketing associations. Under the “Hereditary Farm Law of 1933” (Reichsnährstandsgesetz), farmers were bound to their land since most agricultural land could not be sold. The law was enacted to protect and preserve Germany's smaller hereditary estates that were no larger than 308 acres. Below that acreage, farmlands could “not be sold, divided, mortgaged or foreclosed on for debt.” Cartel-like marketing boards fixed prices, regulated supplies and oversaw almost every facet in directing agricultural production on farmlands.[6] Besides deciding what seeds and fertilizers were to be applied to farmlands, the Reichsnährstand secured protection from selling foreign food imports inside Germany, and placed a “moratorium on debt payments.”

As the scope and depth of the National Socialists command economy escalated, food production and rural standard of living declined. By autumn of 1936, Germany began to experience critical shortages of food and consumer goods, despite the spending of billions of Reichsmarks on price subsidies to farmers.[9] Germans were even subjected to rationing of many major consumer goods, including “produce, butter and other consumables.” Besides food shortages, Germany began to encounter a loss of farm laborers, where up to 440,000 farmers had abandoned agriculture between 1933 and 1939.

The Reichsnährstand's argument that Germany "needed" an additional 7-8 million hectares of farmland, and that consolidation of existing farms would displace many existing farmers who would need to work new land, influenced Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union.

WW2 GERMAN NAZI RARE RELIC FOUND AGRICULTURE LAND CONTROLLED BY THE WAFFEN SS - METAL SIGN ERBHOF SS - FORCED LABOUR

during the war, agriculture lands that was owned by blood verified true germans, were administrated by the NSDAP and this sign was to tell that this land is in control of the administration of the NSDAP.

forced labour was also provided to help the land owners...

Under strict control of the Reichsnährstand headed by SS-Obergrüppenfühere R. Walter Darrè, the Reich Erbhof law, a cornerstone of the NS agricultural policy and National Socialist ‘Blud und Boden’ (Blood and Soil) ideology, effected in October 1933, represented a strong state intervention in rural property ownership. Twenty-two percent of farms comprising 37 percent[3] of all agricultural land, were thus transformed into quasi-feudal estates.

The Bauern received a helping hand from organisations such as the SS, DAF, Hitler Youth and Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Maidens) but this was not enough to offset manpower shortages.

During war time foreign forced labour and prisoners of war were also set to work on the land which then of course puts an end to Darrè’s ideological dreams of Blood and Soil, German lands tilled by the peasant heroes of Nazi Germany, the holders of the racial bloodstock of the nation, the Bauerntum.

SEE LAST PHOTO FOR AN EXAMPLE OF ONE SIMILAR SIGN *FROM ANOTHER SS DIVISION - THAT WAS DESTROYED AFTER WAR
At the end of World War Two, the German people hastily rid themselves of the propaganda from the Third Reich, much was burned and buried, weapons and munitions thrown into the village pond. Decades later artifacts that were once quickly thrown into the garbage of history slowly come back to light. On a pile of rubble behind the bust of Adolf Hitler lies the Deutschen Bauern odal rune cast iron relief of the Erbhof, part of a group of artifacts of German rural history unearthed in the museum village Hösseringen

AMAZING PIECE OF HISTORY!!!!

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WW2 German Nazi Third Reich NSDAP Der Reichsnährstand (RNST) metal sign

The Reichsnährstand or 'State Food Society', was a government body set up in Nazi Germany to regulate food production.

The Reichsnährstand had legal authority over everyone involved in agricultural production and distribution. It attempted to interfere in the market for agricultural goods, using a complex system of orders, price controls, and prohibitions, through regional marketing associations. Under the “Hereditary Farm Law of 1933” (Reichsnährstandsgesetz), farmers were bound to their land since most agricultural land could not be sold. The law was enacted to protect and preserve Germany's smaller hereditary estates that were no larger than 308 acres. Below that acreage, farmlands could “not be sold, divided, mortgaged or foreclosed on for debt.” Cartel-like marketing boards fixed prices, regulated supplies and oversaw almost every facet in directing agricultural production on farmlands. Besides deciding what seeds and fertilizers were to be applied to farmlands, the Reichsnährstand secured protection from selling foreign food imports inside Germany, and placed a “moratorium on debt payments.”

As the scope and depth of the National Socialists command economy escalated, food production and rural standard of living declined. By autumn of 1936, Germany began to experience critical shortages of food and consumer goods, despite the spending of billions of Reichsmarks on price subsidies to farmers. Germans were even subjected to rationing of many major consumer goods, including “produce, butter and other consumables.” Besides food shortages, Germany began to encounter a loss of farm laborers, where up to 440,000 farmers had abandoned agriculture between 1933 and 1939.

The Reichsnährstand's argument that Germany "needed" an additional 7-8 million hectares of farmland, and that consolidation of existing farms would displace many existing farmers who would need to work new land, influenced Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union.

LARGE METAL WALL PLATE OF NSDAP LEADER ADOLF HITLER

DIAMETER 24CM