Ordinance Reich Minister of the Interior, under § 25 of the decree of 4 February 1933

Third Ordinance for the Implementation of the Decree for the Protection of the German People

Dritte Verordnung zur Durchführung der Verordnung zum Schutze des deutschen Volkes

Under the decree of 4 February, a meeting could be dissolved and a newspaper banned for insulting or maliciously disparaging the state’s ‘leading officials’. The first implementing ordinance had defined these as the Reich Chancellor, the Reich ministers and the state secretaries. This one-sentence ordinance added the men running the Prussian ministries as commissioners of the Reich, among them Hermann Göring at the Prussian Interior Ministry, so that attacks on them too could be met with bans.

Dated: Tuesday 7 February 1933
Published in: Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I, no. 11, Wednesday 8 February 1933, p. 54
Citation: RGBl. I S. 54

On the day pages

Signed Day 9, Tuesday 7 February 1933

RGBl. I S. 54. Commons record

The text

Dritte Verordnung zur Durchführung der Verordnung zum Schutze des deutschen Volkes.

Third Ordinance for the Implementation of the Decree for the Protection of the German People.

Vom 7. Februar 1933.

Of 7 February 1933.

Auf Grund des § 25 der Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutze des deutschen Volkes vom 4. Februar 1933 (Reichsgesetzbl. I S. 35) wird hiermit verordnet:

On the basis of § 25 of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the German People of 4 February 1933 (Reich Law Gazette I p. 35), it is hereby decreed:

Als leitende Beamte im Sinne des § 2 Nr. 2, § 9 Abs. 1 Nr. 5 der Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutze des deutschen Volkes werden ferner die als Kommissare des Reichs mit der Führung der Preußischen Ministerien betrauten Personen bestimmt.

The persons entrusted, as commissioners of the Reich, with the conduct of the Prussian ministries are further designated as leading officials within the meaning of § 2, no. 2, and § 9, para. 1, no. 5, of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the German People.

Berlin, den 7. Februar 1933.

Berlin, 7 February 1933.

Der Reichsminister des Innern Frick

The Reich Minister of the Interior Frick

About this text

The full text is given. Transcribed from the RGBl. scan (issue 11, p. 54); compared word by word with documentArchiv.de, which agrees with the gazette.

The English translation was made for this site and is not an official translation.

German laws and decrees are official works and not protected by copyright (§ 5 UrhG).

Terms

leitende Beamte: ‘Leading officials’. Under § 2 no. 2 and § 9 para. 1 no. 5 of the decree of 4 February, a meeting could be dissolved, or a periodical banned, if ‘organs, institutions, authorities or leading officials of the state’ were insulted or maliciously disparaged in it. Who counted as a leading official was left to ordinances like this one.
Kommissare des Reichs: The commissioners of the Reich who ran the Prussian ministries after the ‘Prussian coup’ of July 1932. Under Papen as Reich Commissioner, Göring was commissioner for the Prussian Interior Ministry from 30 January 1933.

Sources

Reichsgesetzblatt 1933 Teil I, Nr. 11 (8. Februar 1933), S. 54 (Reichsministerium des Innern; scan on Wikimedia Commons)
Dritte Verordnung zur Durchführung der Verordnung zum Schutze des deutschen Volkes (transcription) (documentArchiv.de)

Gazette scans: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.