# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-backe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:20:01.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-backe"
name: "Herbert Backe"
slug: "herbert-backe"
description: "Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe was a German politician and SS-Obergruppenführer who served as State Secretary and Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture. He was a doctrinaire racial ideologue, a long-time associate of Richard Walther Darré and a personal friend of Reinhard Heydrich. He developed and implemented the Hunger Plan that envisioned death by starvation of tens of millions of Slavic and Jewish \"useless eaters\" following Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union."
tagline: "German politician (1896-1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J02034%2C_Herbert_Backe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1896-05-01"
deathDate: "1947-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.20311733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump