Theodor Oberländer
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Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War Germany
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In office 1953–1960 |
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| Preceded by | Hans Lukaschek |
| Succeeded by | Hans-Joachim von Merkatz |
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Member of Parliament Germany
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In office 1953–1961 |
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Member of Parliament Germany
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In office 1963–1965 |
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Member of Parliament Bavaria
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In office 1950–1953 |
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| Nationality | German |
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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (GB/BHE) Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
Theodor Oberländer (1 May 1905 – 4 May 1998) was an Ostforschung scientist, Nazi officer and German politician.
Before World War II, he devised plans aimed against the Jewish and Polish populations in territories that were to be conquered by Nazi Germany. During the war he supported the ethnic cleansing policies of the Nazis and after the invasion of the Soviet Union, served as a contact officer with Nazi collaborators on the Eastern Front.
After the war, he served as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War in the Second and Third Cabinets of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer from 1953 to 1960, and as a Member of the Bundestag from 1953 to 1961 and from 1963 to 1965, during which time he represented Hildesheim from 1957 to 1961. Oberländer initially represented the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights and served as its chairman from 1954 to 1955. In 1956 he became a member of the Christian Democratic Union. Before he entered federal politics, he served as a member of the Parliament of Bavaria from 1950 to 1953 and as Secretary of State for Refugee Affairs in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior from 1951 to 1953.
Oberländer was born in Meiningen, Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, part of the German Empire in 1905. At the age of 18, he participated in Adolf Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Bavaria, in 1923 during the existence of the Weimar Republic. After joining the Nazis in 1933, he became a senior SA commander and leader of an NSDAP district. Oberländer obtained a doctorate in Agricultural Sciences and wrote several books about the need for German intervention in the agricultural systems of Poland and the Soviet Union, which he considered "un-economic".
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