Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe (1896 - 1947)

Born 1 May 1896 in Batumi, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire

Died 6 Apr 1947 at age 50 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany

Biography

Herbert Backe is Notable.

Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe was born May 1, 1896 in Batumi, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire

He was a German politician and SS functionary during the Nazi era. He developed and implemented the Hunger Plan that envisions death by starvation of millions of Slavic and Jewish "useless eaters" following Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union.

This plan is developed during the planning phase for the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) invasion and provids for diverting of the Ukrainian food stuffs away from central and northern Russia and redirecting them for the benefit of the invading army and the population in Germany. As a result, millions of civilians die in the German-occupied territories.

Backe was arrested in 1945 and due to be tried for war crimes at Nuremberg in the Ministries Trial. He committed suicide in prison on April 6, 1947 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany.

Sources

Stadtarchiv Nürnberg; Nürnberg, Deutschland; Personenstandsregister Sterberegister; Bestand: C 27/II; Signatur: C 27/II Nr. 3113

Ancestry.com. Nuremberg, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1983 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Backe