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Konrad Meyer-Hetling
Creutz in U.S. custody
Born(1901-05-15)15 May 1901
Lower Saxony, German Empire
Died25 April 1973(1973-04-25) (aged 71)
Einbeck, West Germany
Political party Nazi Party
Criminal status Deceased
Motive Nazism
Conviction(s) Membership in a criminal organization
Trial RuSHA trial
Criminal penalty Time served
SS career
Allegiance  Germany
Service/branch Schutzstaffel

Konrad Meyer-Hetling (15 May 1901 – 25 April 1973) was a German agronomist and SS-Oberführer. He is best known for his involvement in the development of Generalplan Ost.

Early life

Meyer was born in Salzderhelden, near Einbeck, in southern Lower Saxony, the son of a school teacher. [1] He studied agronomy at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1926 with a thesis on crop production. [1] He became an assistant at the university and did his habilitation in 1930. [1]

From 1930 to 1933, Meyer worked as a docent at the University of Göttingen, and in 1934, he became a full professor at the University of Jena. [1] The same year, he became a professor at the University of Berlin. [1] In November 1934 he became a consultant for the Reich Ministry of Science and Education on the reformation of German agricultural education and research. [1] Meyer was one of the key agricultural scientists and spatial planners of the Nazi era, and served as the chief editor of the main journals of the field. [2]

Generalplan Ost

Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Philipp Bouhler, Fritz Todt and Reinhard Heydrich (from left), listening to Meyer at a Generalplan Ost exhibition, 20 March 1941

Meyer joined the NSDAP on 1 February 1932 (member number 908,471), [1] and the SS on 20 June 1933 (member number 74,695). [2] In 1935, he was recruited to the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA). [2] In 1939, he became the head of the Planning Office under Himmler's office of Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood (RKF), and he also worked for Himmler's personal staff. [2]

In early 1940, the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) produced, with Meyer's collaboration, the initial version of Generalplan Ost (General Plan East), a plan for the Germanization of Eastern Europe. [1] Meyer's subordinates in RKF's creating the memorandum included geographer Walter Christaller and landscape architect Heinrich Friedrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann. From 1944 to 1945, the end of the war, Meyer served an officer in a Waffen-SS officer training school. [2]

Later life

After the war, Meyer was charged by the US authorities in the RuSHA Trial. He was found guilty of being a member of a criminal organization (SS) but not guilty of war crimes or crimes against humanity. [1] He was released in 1948, and in 1956, he was appointed professor of agriculture and regional planning at Leibniz University Hannover, where he worked until his retirement, in 1964. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j The Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47 - Guide to the Microfiche Edition: With an Introduction to the Trial's History by Angelika Ebbinghaus and Short Biographies of the Participants, 2001, Walter de Gruyter, ISBN  3110950073, p. 119
  2. ^ a b c d e "DFG (German Research Foundation) - Konrad Meyer, Umsiedlungsplaner der SS". Archived from the original on August 20, 2007. Retrieved January 2, 2013.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link)

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