Die biodynamische Bewegung und Demeter in der NS-Zeit

The writer, reform pedagogue and founder of anthroposophy Rudolf Steiner developed the foundations of biodynamic farming 100 years ago. It established itself in Germany as the Demeter movement and fascinated many contemporaries, but also gave rise to fierce opposition. Under the Nazi dictatorship, the movement was initially able to expand in a contradictory process until it was dissolved in a Gestapo action in the summer of 1941. The chequered history from its beginnings to the early post-war period is presented in this volume on a broad source basis.