Decree on the Dissolution of the Reich Central Office for Home Service
Erlaß über die Auflösung der Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst
A one-sentence decree that dissolved the Reich Central Office for Home Service, the Republic’s agency for civic education and information about government policy, with effect from 16 March 1933. It was signed two days after Goebbels took office as head of the new Propaganda Ministry, which took over the field.
- Dated
- Wednesday 15 March 1933
- Published in
- Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I, no. 22, Saturday 18 March 1933, p. 107
- Citation
- RGBl. I S. 107
- In force
- Dissolution on 16 March 1933, two days before the gazette issue appeared
On the day pages
About this text
The full text is given. Transcribed from the RGBl. scan (issue 22, p. 107); no other transcription was found to compare.
The English translation was made for this site and is not an official translation. ‘Heimatdienst’ (literally ‘home service’) is rendered literally, as in most English accounts of the office.
German laws and decrees are official works and not protected by copyright (§ 5 UrhG).
Terms
- Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst
- Founded in 1918 as a wartime information office and kept by the Republic, it explained government policy and promoted civic education through publications, lectures and regional offices. It is regarded as a forerunner of the Federal Agency for Civic Education.
Sources
- Reichsgesetzblatt 1933 Teil I, Nr. 22 (18. März 1933), S. 107 (Reichsministerium des Innern; scan on Wikimedia Commons)
Gazette scans: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.