Reichsbund der Kinderreichen
Reichsbund der Kinderreichen (RDK or RdK), Reich's Union of Large Families or literally: Reich's League of those wealthy in children, was one of the most important pronatalist groups founded in Germany after World War I. To qualify as a member of this league a family should have at least four children. Widows were also admitted.
The German Large Family League was forcefully
Renaming
The RDK was renamed Reichsbund Deutsche Familie, Kampfbund für erbtüchtigen Kinderreichtum (literally German Family Reich's League, Struggle League for a Hereditarily Strong Offspring), in April 1940, in the first years of World War II. Its new acronym became RDF and Dr. Robert Kaiser became its new leader.
As a Nazi organization the German Large Family League was disbanded after Nazi Germany's
References
(partly)
- Jill Stephenson, "Reichsbund der Kinderreichen": the League of Large Families in the Population Policy of Nazi Germany, European History Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 3, 351-375 (1979)