Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle
| Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VoMi) | |
 Rudolf Hess and Heinrich Himmler visiting an exhibition of proposed rural German settlements within occupied Eastern Europe (March 1941). |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | c.1937 |
| Dissolved | May 8, 1945 |
| Superseding agency |
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| Jurisdiction |
Germany Occupied Europe |
| Headquarters |
Unter den Linden 64, Berlin 52°31′1.03″N 13°23′0.28″E / 52.5169528°N 13.3834111°E |
| Employees | 5,000 c.January 1942 |
| Ministers responsible |
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| Agency executive |
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| Parent agency |
NSDAP Allgemeine-SS |
The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle or VoMi (Coordination Centre for Ethnic Germans) was an NSDAP agency founded to manage the interests of the ethnic Germans (population of German ethnicity living outside the borders of Nazi Germany).
It would later, under Allgemeine-SS administration, become responsible for orchestrating the Nazi ideology of Lebensraum (English: living space) in Eastern Europe.
It was founded in 1937 under the command of SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Lorenz as a state office of the Nazi Party. Its headquarters were on Unter den Linden, Berlin (this changed to Keithstraße in 1943 due to Allied Bombing). VoMi's primary task was the resettlement of German peoples outside Germany. Between 1939 and 1942, VoMi had resettled half a million ethnic Germans into the newly occupied territories of the Reich under the slogan "Heim ins Reich" (English: Home into the Empire). These territories included the Reichsgaus of the German Reich, these included Wartheland (Posen) and Danzig-West Prussia (Danzig).
On October 7, 1939, two days after Poland had been overrun, Adolf Hitler established the Reichskommissariat for the Strengthening of German Nationhood (German: Reichskommissariat für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums or RKFDV) and appointed Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler as its Reichskommissar. This position authorized the SS to plan, initiate, and control the pace of germanisation, settlement and population transfer projects in occupied Poland; this was later expanded to occupied Russia.
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