Konrad Meyer-Hetling

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 .

Early life Meyer was born in Salzderhelden, near Einbeck, in southern Lower Saxony, the son of a school teacher. He studied agronomy at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1926 with a thesis on crop production.

Generalplan Ost

Meyer joined the NSDAP on 1 February 1932 (member number 908,471), and the SS on 20 June 1933 (member number 74,695). In 1935, he was recruited to the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA). 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.

In early 1940, the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) produced, with Meyer's collaboration, the initial version of (General Plan East), a plan for the Germanization of Eastern Europe. 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.

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. 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 1968.