Saxony Demonstrations Ban
Verordnung des Reichsministers des Innern über das Verbot kommunistischer Demonstrationen im Freistaat Sachsen
Ordinance of the Reich Minister of the Interior on the Prohibition of Communist Demonstrations in the Free State of Saxony
Frick used his power under the decree of 4 February to ban open-air meetings and marches in all or part of the Reich, forbidding those of the KPD and its auxiliary organisations in Saxony, a state still governed by a caretaker cabinet without Nazi ministers. Organisers, leaders, speakers and anyone who provided a site faced prison, and participants fines of up to 150 Reichsmarks. The ban applied from 22 February until further notice.
- Dated
- Tuesday 21 February 1933
- Published in
- Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I, no. 15, Tuesday 21 February 1933, p. 78
- Citation
- RGBl. I S. 78
- In force
- Wednesday 22 February 1933
On the day pages
About this text
The full text is given. Transcribed from the RGBl. scan (issue 15, p. 78); compared word by word with documentArchiv.de, which agrees with the gazette but drops the numbering of the two cases in § 2 (1).
The English translation was made for this site and is not an official translation. ‘Freistaat’ (free state) was the official style of the republican state of Saxony.
German laws and decrees are official works and not protected by copyright (§ 5 UrhG).
Terms
- § 5 der Verordnung zum Schutze des deutschen Volkes
- § 5 of the decree of 4 February 1933 allowed the Reich Minister of the Interior to ban open-air meetings and processions, and the wearing of political uniforms, for the whole Reich or parts of it, and to set prison or fines for contraventions. This ordinance used it against one party in one state.
- Hilfs- oder Nebenorganisationen
- Auxiliary or subsidiary organisations: the bodies around the KPD, such as its youth league, the Red Aid and the ‘Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus’.
- Aufzug
- A procession or march in the street, distinguished in German assembly law from a stationary meeting.
Sources
- Reichsgesetzblatt 1933 Teil I, Nr. 15 (21. Februar 1933), S. 78 (Reichsministerium des Innern; scan on Wikimedia Commons)
- Verordnung des Reichsministers des Innern über das Verbot kommunistischer Demonstrationen im Freistaat Sachsen (21.02.1933) (transcription) (documentArchiv.de)
Gazette scans: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.