Werner Willikens (8 February 1893 in Vienenburg – 25 October 1961 in Wolfenbüttel) was a German politician with the Nazi Party who largely served in agricultural administration.
[1] Willikens was a member of the Reichstag from electoral constituency 16 (South Hanover-Brunswick), elected as one of the first 12 Nazi deputies in 1928 and retaining his seat until the fall of the Third Reich.
[3] In 1930, Willikens was appointed deputy chairman of Agrarpolitischer Apparat, the Agricultural Affairs Bureau of the NSDAP headed by Richard Walther Darré, and he also chaired the Agrarian League.
[5] After Adolf Hitler came to power, Willikens was appointed as State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests in July 1933, also under Darré.
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