Day 63 of 100
Boycott ‘suspended’ until Wednesday as the coordination law appears in the gazette
From Munich Streicher’s committee announced that the boycott was suspended until Wednesday morning and told local committees to take down their posters. The coordination law appeared in the Reich Law Gazette, to take effect the next day, and the chairmen of 85 labour exchanges were suspended. Berlin mourned the actor Paul Biensfeldt, who had died overnight; Hertha BSC and BSV 92 drew 2–2 before 15,000 spectators, a tram rammed a Stahlhelm lorry in Neukölln, and an operetta ended in uproar at the Schiller-Theater.
Laws and decrees
Vorläufiges Gesetz zur Gleichschaltung der Länder mit dem Reich
Provisional Law for the Coordination of the States with the Reich
Promulgated in the issue of the Reich Law Gazette dated 2 April 1933; under the Enabling Act’s rule that its laws took effect on the day after promulgation, it came into force on 3 April. It dissolved the state parliaments (except Prussia’s) and municipal councils outside Prussia and reconstituted them by the Reichstag vote of 5 March.4,5
Politics and power
Government, terror and persecution
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Persecution Munich
Streicher’s committee suspends the boycott until Wednesday
The Central Committee’s Order No. 8 announced that, by order of the party leadership, the boycott of Jewish shops, doctors and lawyers was suspended until 10:00 on Wednesday 5 April and that the ‘former state’ was restored. Posters and stickers connected with the boycott were to be removed, and it was to be resumed only on the committee’s instruction. Should it resume, Jewish shops were to be marked with posters reading ‘Jew’ and others with ‘German shop’.1,2
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Government Berlin
Purge of the labour exchanges
The Reich Labour Minister authorised the president of the Reich Institution for Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance to take personnel decisions without its self-governing bodies. On the minister’s instructions three chairmen and four deputy chairmen of the state labour offices were suspended until further notice, and at the local labour exchanges 85 chairmen and 106 deputy chairmen; where contracts allowed, many were dismissed at the same time. The service of the 360 labour exchanges was kept going by redeploying staff.3
Everyday life
What else was happening in Germany
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Births and deaths overnight, Berlin
Death of the actor Paul Biensfeldt
Paul Biensfeldt, one of Berlin’s best-loved actors, died of heart failure during the night before Sunday, aged 64, after a long heart illness. Only on Saturday evening he had played Antonio in Much Ado About Nothing at the Volksbühne. For many years a member of the Deutsches Theater ensemble, he was one of Max Reinhardt’s oldest collaborators and friends; his first great success had been Amandus in the Berlin premiere of Max Halbe’s Jugend.5,6
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Theatre evening, Berlin, Schiller-Theater
Uproar at the Schiller-Theater
At the last performance of the operetta La Vallière at the Schiller-Theater, the audience was told that the leading man, Louis Graveure, was indisposed and would ‘play’ his part; he then spoke the whole role instead of singing it. The house whistled, and after the interval people stormed the box office demanding their money back, which the management refused. It was said that Graveure, the only member of the company always paid on time, had demanded his evening fee in advance that morning.10
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Sport Berlin, Preußenplatz
Hertha and BSV 92 share the points
In the final round of the Brandenburg football championship, Hertha BSC and BSV 92, winners of the qualifying round, met for the first time before 15,000 spectators at the Preußenplatz. In a game of little class they drew 2–2: Hertha led 2–1 at half-time, but BSV held on through a determined second half. The scorers were Berner and Appel for BSV, Prominski and Kirsei for Hertha.7,9
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Transport morning, Berlin-Neukölln, Hermannstraße
Tram rams a Stahlhelm lorry in Neukölln
On Sunday morning a line 27 tram collided in Hermannstraße, Neukölln, with a Stahlhelm lorry carrying men that was trying to turn. The lorry was badly damaged; the fire brigade took eight injured people to hospital, one of them, a Stahlhelm man named Fiedler, seriously hurt by a splinter from a seat.8
More pictures
Sources
- Dortmunder Zeitung, 3 April 1933: Order No. 8 of the Central Committee (München, 2 April) Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Zeitungsportal, p. 1
- Westfälische Zeitung (Bielefeld), 3 April 1933: removal of boycott posters; marking of shops if the boycott resumes Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Zeitungsportal, p. 1
- Neckar-Bergstrass-Post, 4 April 1933: ‘Umfassende Personalveränderungen bei der Reichsanstalt’ (Berlin, 2 April) Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Zeitungsportal, p. 3
- Vorläufiges Gesetz zur Gleichschaltung der Länder mit dem Reich (31.03.1933) documentArchiv.de, RGBl. 1933 I, S. 153–154
- Bergedorfer Zeitung, 3 April 1933: ‘Gleichschaltungsgesetz tritt heute in Kraft’ (p. 1); ‘Paul Biensfeldt †’ (p. 7) Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Zeitungsportal, pp. 1, 7
- Kölnische Zeitung, 5 April 1933: obituary of Paul Biensfeldt Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Zeitungsportal, p. 2
- Münsterländische Volkszeitung, 3 April 1933: ‘Um die brandenburgische Meisterschaft’ (Berlin, 2 April) Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Zeitungsportal, p. 6
- Weißeritz-Zeitung, 3 April 1933: ‘Straßenbahn rammt Stahlhelmerauto’ (Berlin, 2 April) Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Zeitungsportal, p. 4
- Morgen-Zeitung, 3 April 1933: ‘Hertha BSC spielt nur unentschieden’ Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Zeitungsportal, p. 8
- Hamburger Fremdenblatt, 3 April 1933: ‘Theaterskandal bei La Vallière’ (Berlin, 3 April) Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, Zeitungsportal, p. 3
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