Law Reich Government, under the Enabling Act

Law amending the Reich Governors Law

Gesetz zur Änderung des Reichsstatthaltergesetzes

Under the Reich Governors Law of 7 April 1933 the Reich Chancellor himself held the Reich governor’s powers in Prussia. This amendment let Hitler hand three of them (promulgating state laws, appointing and dismissing officials and judges, and pardoning) to the Prussian Minister President, Hermann Göring, with power to pass them on. Hitler did so the same day by a decree printed on the next page of the gazette (RGBl. I S. 226), which also repealed his two decrees of 22 April on appointments and pardons in Prussia.

Dated: Tuesday 25 April 1933
Published in: Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I, no. 43, Wednesday 26 April 1933, p. 225
Citation: RGBl. I S. 225
In force: 27 April 1933, the day after promulgation (the law has no commencement clause, so Article 3 of the Enabling Act applies)

On the day pages

Passed Day 86, Tuesday 25 April 1933

RGBl. I S. 225. Commons record

The text

Gesetz zur Änderung des Reichsstatthaltergesetzes.

Law amending the Reich Governors Law.

Vom 25. April 1933.

Of 25 April 1933.

Die Reichsregierung hat das folgende Gesetz beschlossen, das hiermit verkündet wird:

The Reich Government has enacted the following law, which is hereby promulgated:

§ 5 Abs. 1 des Zweiten Gesetzes zur Gleichschaltung der Länder mit dem Reich [Reichsstatthaltergesetz] vom 7. April 1933 (Reichsgesetzbl. I S. 173 erhält folgende Fassung:

§ 5, para. 1, of the Second Law for the Coordination of the States with the Reich [Reich Governors Law] of 7 April 1933 (Reichsgesetzbl. I p. 173) is worded as follows:

(1) In Preußen übt der Reichskanzler die im § 1 genannten Rechte aus. Er kann die Ausübung der im § 1 Abs. 1 unter Ziffer 3 bis 5 genannten Rechte auf den Ministerpräsidenten übertragen, der ermächtigt ist, diese Rechte weiter zu übertragen.

(1) In Prussia the Reich Chancellor exercises the rights named in § 1. He may transfer the exercise of the rights named in § 1, para. 1, nos. 3 to 5, to the Minister President, who is empowered to transfer these rights further.

Berlin, den 25. April 1933.

Berlin, 25 April 1933.

Der Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler

The Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler

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 43, p. 225); compared word by word with documentArchiv.de, which omits ‘Abs. 1’ after ‘§ 5’ and supplies the closing bracket after ‘S. 173’ that the gazette leaves out; the gazette’s text is kept as printed.

The English translation was made for this site and is not an official translation. The gazette omits the closing bracket after ‘Reichsgesetzbl. I S. 173’; the German is transcribed as printed and the English supplies it. The square brackets around ‘Reichsstatthaltergesetz’ are the gazette’s own. The rights in § 1, para. 1, nos. 3 to 5, of the Reich Governors Law were the promulgation of state laws, the appointment and dismissal of state officials and judges, and the right of pardon.

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

Terms

Reichsstatthalter: Reich Governor: the office created by the Second Coordination Law of 7 April 1933 to oversee each state on the Reich Chancellor’s behalf, with power to appoint and dismiss the state government. Outside Prussia the posts went mostly to Nazi Gauleiters.
Gleichschaltung: Coordination: the regime’s term for bringing the states, and later organisations of every kind, into line with the Reich government and the party.
Ministerpräsident: The Prussian Minister President, head of the Prussian state government: Hermann Göring, appointed on 11 April 1933.

Sources

Reichsgesetzblatt 1933 Teil I, Nr. 43 (26. April 1933), S. 225 (Reichsministerium des Innern; scan on Wikimedia Commons)
Gesetz zur Änderung des Reichsstatthaltergesetzes (25.04.1933) (transcription) (documentArchiv.de)

Gazette scans: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.