Cataloguing system of the Yad Vashem (Jerusalem/Israel) http://www.yadvashem.org.
SS-Obergruppenführer (the second highest SS-rank and the equivalent of a general) and the seventh most senior officer of the SS, a leading Nazi"blood-and-soi" (Blut und Boden) ideologist and Reich minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942.