We stay a while at the stud’ Janow Podalski’ in Poland. The Nazi regime and the German cavalry did rely heavenly on the willingness of the Polish farmer to breed horses. Through public relation campaigns and especially by showing stallion in harness and under the saddle in all disciplines they thought to reach their set goal. It was Dr.h.c. Gustav Rau who ‘invented’ stallion-shows, even in war time. Very accomplished riders and drivers were willing to make their contribution to these show- events. Men like Goebbels( minister of propaganda) and high Nazi personal did visit these well prepared events in the WWII. Here we see Mr. Hans Fellgiebel , the grandfather of the German national dressage trainer Monika Theodorescu, driving two elegant Lipizzan stallions in a very British style in his German Wehrmacht uniform. Those Stallion-shows ( Hengstparadeare still seen every year at the bigger German studs like Warendorff, Celle, Dillenburg Marbach and many other German “Land- or Hauptgestüt”. A “Hauptgestüt” is a place where there are stallions and also a selected amount of breeding mares. A “Hauptgestüt” was a place where besides horse breeding, the enterprise functioned as a well managed agriculture enterprise too. A “Landgestüt” is/was a stable were only stallions were trained and selected for their natural breeding duties in the different part of the “Land”( Provinces or Districts). Herr Dr. Rau was a “Oberlandstallmeister” that did mean that he was the “Boss” of all the stud directors during the Nazi regime, he was called “Supreme”. Since 1946 he became “Landstallmeister” at the Dillenburg stud in the German District( Land) Hessen- Nassau.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:12:02 +0000
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