Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle

Coordination Center
for Ethnic Germans
Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VoMi)
	; Rudolf Hess and Heinrich Himmler visiting an exhibition of proposed rural German settlements within occupied Eastern Europe (March 1941).
Agency overview
Formed	c.1937
Preceding agencies	Volksdeutscher Rat (VR) - (Ethnic German Council) (1933-1935); Büro von Kursell;
Dissolved	May 8, 1945
Superseding agency	Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums (RKFDV);
Jurisdiction	Germany; Occupied Europe
Headquarters	Unter den Linden 64, Berlin; 52°31′1.03″N 13°23′0.28″E
Employees	5,000 c. January 1942
Ministers responsible	NSDAP Reichsschatzmeister Franz Xaver Schwarz, (1937–1939); Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, (1939–1945);
Agency executive	SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Lorenz, Chef für Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (1937–1945);
Parent agency	NSDAP ; Allgemeine-SS

In Nazi Germany the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle or VoMi (Coordination Center for Ethnic Germans) was a Nazi Party agency founded to manage the interests of the Volksdeutsche - the population of ethnic Germans living outside the Third Reich. Ultimately coming under Allgemeine-SS administration, it became responsible for orchestrating the implementation of Nazi Lebensraum (English: living-space) policies in Eastern Europe during World War II.

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