Reichserbhofgesetz

[1] As farmers appeared in Nazi ideology as a source of economics and racial stability, the law was implemented to protect them from the forces of modernization.

[2] Any farm of at least one Ackernahrung, an area of land large enough to support a family and evaluated from 7.5 to 125 hectares (19–309 acres), was declared a Hereditary farm (Erbhof), to pass from father to son, without the possibility to be mortgaged or alienated.

[8] Only about 35% of all farming units were covered by the law, and landed estates in East Elbia were not affected by it.

[4][5] Richard Walther Darré, in accordance with his strong "blood and soil" beliefs, did much to promote the law as the Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and Reichsbauernführer.

In Allied-occupied Germany, after much debate about whether this law should be repealed for its Nazi roots or if it should be kept for the moment, after excising its most odious clauses, to protect the German food supply, in 1947 the Allied Control Council decided to repeal it and to regulate the transfer of forests and farms.