Ordinance Reich Chancellor and Reich Minister of the Interior, under § 6 of the decree of 15 December 1932

Second Ordinance for the Implementation of Work Creation

Zweite Verordnung zur Durchführung der Arbeitsbeschaffung

Municipalities could borrow from the work-creation programme inherited from the Schleicher government, but borrowing normally needed a decision of the elected council, and on 4 February every municipal council in Prussia had been dissolved. This one-sentence ordinance let the municipal executive board decide on such loans in towns, rural municipalities and Ämter until the result of the new council elections was officially announced. It was signed by Hitler and Frick.

Dated: Wednesday 8 February 1933
Published in: Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I, no. 12, Wednesday 15 February 1933, p. 56
Citation: RGBl. I S. 56

On the day pages

Signed Day 10, Wednesday 8 February 1933

RGBl. I S. 56. Commons record

The text

Zweite Verordnung zur Durchführung der Arbeitsbeschaffung.

Second Ordinance for the Implementation of Work Creation.

Vom 8. Februar 1933*).

Of 8 February 1933*).

Auf Grund des § 6 der Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten über Maßnahmen zur Förderung der Arbeitsbeschaffung und der ländlichen Siedlung vom 15. Dezember 1932 (Reichsgesetzbl. I S. 543) wird hiermit verordnet:

On the basis of § 6 of the Decree of the Reich President on Measures to Promote Work Creation and Rural Settlement of 15 December 1932 (Reich Law Gazette I p. 543), it is hereby decreed:

„Die Verordnung zur Durchführung der Arbeitsbeschaffung vom 26. Januar 1933 (Reichsgesetzbl. I S. 31) erhält im Artikel 1 als Buchstabe d folgenden Zusatz:

‘The Ordinance for the Implementation of Work Creation of 26 January 1933 (Reich Law Gazette I p. 31) receives in Article 1, as letter d, the following addition:

„in Stadtgemeinden, Landgemeinden und Ämtern beschließt über die Darlehnsaufnahme bis zur amtlichen Bekanntmachung des Wahlergebnisses der neugewählten Vertretungskörperschaft der Gemeindevorstand im Sinne des § 26 der Gemeindefinanzverordnung vom 2. November 1932 — Gesetzsamml. S. 341 —.“

‘in urban municipalities, rural municipalities and Ämter, the municipal executive board within the meaning of § 26 of the Municipal Finance Ordinance of 2 November 1932 — [Prussian] Law Gazette p. 341 — decides on the raising of loans until the official announcement of the election result of the newly elected representative body.’

Berlin, den 8. Februar 1933.

Berlin, 8 February 1933.

Der Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler

The Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler

Der Reichsminister des Innern Frick

The Reich Minister of the Interior Frick

*) Veröffentlicht im Deutschen Reichsanzeiger und Preußischen Staatsanzeiger Nr. 34 vom 9. Februar 1933.

*) Published in the Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger no. 34 of 9 February 1933.

About this text

The full text is given. Transcribed from the RGBl. scan (issue 12, p. 56), including the gazette’s footnote; no other transcription was found to compare. The gazette opens two quotations and closes only one, at the end; the marks are kept as printed.

The English translation was made for this site and is not an official translation. The words added to the January ordinance are quoted within the ordinance, and the translation keeps the quotation. ‘Gesetzsamml.’ refers to the Prussian law gazette, which shows that the addition was aimed at Prussian municipalities.

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

Terms

Arbeitsbeschaffung: Work creation: the public works programme begun under Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher in December 1932, financed by Reich credits that municipalities and other bodies could borrow for approved projects.
Gemeindevorstand: The municipal executive, as distinct from the elected council (Vertretungskörperschaft); § 26 of the Prussian Municipal Finance Ordinance defined which body that was in each kind of municipality.
Ämter: Ämter: associations of rural municipalities in the Prussian provinces of Westphalia and the Rhineland, each with its own elected assembly. Their assemblies were among those dissolved on 4 February.
Gemeindefinanzverordnung: The Prussian Municipal Finance Ordinance of 2 November 1932, published in the Preußische Gesetzsammlung (‘Gesetzsamml.’).

Sources

Reichsgesetzblatt 1933 Teil I, Nr. 12 (15. Februar 1933), S. 56 (Reichsministerium des Innern; scan on Wikimedia Commons)

Gazette scans: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.