Decree on the Reich Commissioner for Aviation
Verordnung über den Reichskommissar für die Luftfahrt
Created the office of Reich Commissioner for Aviation, answerable to the Chancellor and ranking as a supreme Reich authority, and moved to it the Transport Ministry’s responsibility for aviation and the Interior Ministry’s for air-raid protection. Hermann Göring had been named to the post when the cabinet was appointed on 30 January, and the decree took effect retroactively from that day. At the end of April 1933 the cabinet turned the commissioner’s office into a Reich Ministry of Aviation, with Göring as minister.
- Dated
- Thursday 2 February 1933
- Published in
- Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I, no. 8, Monday 6 February 1933, p. 35
- Citation
- RGBl. I S. 35
- In force
- Monday 30 January 1933
On the day pages
About this text
The full text is given. Transcribed from the RGBl. scan (issue 8, p. 35); compared word by word with documentArchiv.de, which has ‘der Reichsverkehrsministers’, ‘die Luftschutz’ and ‘Luftfahrt und Luftschutzaufgaben’ where the gazette prints ‘des Reichsverkehrsministers’, ‘den Luftschutz’ and ‘Luftfahrt- und Luftschutzaufgaben’; the gazette’s readings are kept.
The English translation was made for this site and is not an official translation. The decree has no numbered sections and, unlike most of the period’s decrees, cites no legal basis.
German laws and decrees are official works and not protected by copyright (§ 5 UrhG).
Terms
- Reichskommissar für die Luftfahrt
- Reich Commissioner for Aviation. Göring held the post alongside his places in the cabinet as minister without portfolio and as commissioner for the Prussian Interior Ministry. Military aviation was forbidden to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles; the office was the nucleus of the later Reich Aviation Ministry and the Luftwaffe.
- oberste Reichsbehörde
- A supreme Reich authority: an office not subordinate to any ministry, answering directly to the Chancellor.
- Luftschutz
- Air-raid protection (civil air defence), until then a responsibility of the Reich Interior Ministry.
Sources
- Reichsgesetzblatt 1933 Teil I, Nr. 8 (6. Februar 1933), S. 35 (Reichsministerium des Innern; scan on Wikimedia Commons)
- Verordnung über den Reichskommissar für die Luftfahrt (transcription) (documentArchiv.de)
Gazette scans: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.