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He was born in Batum (Batumi), Georgia . He performed duties in the Third Reich government and was named Minister of Food in May 1942 and Minister of Agriculture in April 1944 . He continued to hold that position in the ephemeral Cabinet led by Admiral Karl Dönitz in the last days of WWII , from late April to May 1945 , as according to the Political Will of Adolf Hitler . During the war, Alfred Rosenberg proposed Backe as administrator of the Ukraine Reichskommissariat .

Captured by the Allies after the war, he committed suicide by hanging in his cell at Nuremberg on April 6 , 1947 .


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