1933 PREUSSISCHE GESETZSAMMLUNG, Page 122
Law concerning the Establishment of a Secret State Police Office of April 26, 1933
The State Ministry has resolved on the following Law:
Section 1
(1) The Secret State Police Office, with headquarters in Berlin, is established in order to carry out the duties of the political police along with or in place of the regular police authorities (Section 2, paragraph 1 of the Code of Police Administration of June 1, 1931, Gesetzsammlung p. 77). The Secret State Police Office has the rank of a provincial police authority [Landespolizeibe-hoerde] and is directly subordinate to the Minister of the Interior.
(2) The Minister of the Interior determines the functional and territorial jurisdiction of the Secret State Police Office.
(3) The regulations of the Code of Police Administration of June 1, 1931 concerning appeals against orders of the provincial police authorities are applicable insofar as the District Administrative Court in Berlin always has jurisdiction over appeals in administrative lawsuits against orders of the Secret State Police Office.
Section 2
Within its jurisdiction, the Secret State Police Office can make requests to all police authorities for police action.
Section 3
The Minister of the Interior issues those regulations necessary for the execution of this law. He acts in conjunction with the Minister of Finance in the case of regulations concerning the number and type of officials and employees who are to be assigned to the Secret State Police Office.
Section 4
The law goes into effect on the day after its promulgation. Berlin, 24 April, 1933
The Prussian Ministry of State [seal] Goering
also for the Minister of the Interior
Popitz
The above law, resolved by the Prussian State Ministry, is herewith promulgated.
Berlin, 26 April, 1933
For the Reich Chancellor:
The Prussian President of the Ministerial Council
Goering
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1933 PREUSSISCHE GESETZSAMMLUNG, PAGE 413
Law on the Secret State Police of November 30, 1933
The State Ministry has resolved the following law:
Section 1
(1) The Secret State Police is an independent branch of the Administration of the Interior. The President of the Ministerial Council is its chief. He puts an Inspector of the Secret State Police in charge of current affairs.
(2) In case of absence, the State Secretary of the State Ministry acts as deputy for the President of the Ministerial Council in his capacity as Chief of the Secret State Police.
(3) The Inspector of the Secret State Police is also the chief of the Secret State Police Office.
Section 2
The jurisdiction of the Secret State Police covers all political police matters of the authorities of the general and interior administration. The President of the Ministerial Council, as Chief of the Secret State Police, will determine those particular matters which must be transferred to the Secret State Police.
Section 3
(1) With the enactment of this law the Secret State Police Office takes over those activities of the political police which were previously handled by the Ministry of the Interior.
(2) In matters concerning the Secret State Police the provincial, county and local police authorities are to comply with the directives of the Secret State Police Office.
Section 4
The Minister of Finance is empowered to make changes in the budget of the State, in order to carry out this law.
Section 5
Provisions of the law of April 26, 1933 (Gesetzsammlung 1933, p. 122) which conflict with this law are superseded by this law.
Section 6
This law goes into effect on the day of its promulgation.
Berlin, 30 November 1933
The Prussian State Ministry
[Seal] Goering
also as Minister of the Interior
.. Popitz
The above law, resolved by the Prussian State Ministry, is herewith promulgated.
Berlin, 30 November, 1933
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For the Reich Chancellor:
The Prussian President of the Ministerial Council
Goering
1936 PREUSSISCHE GESETZSAMMLUNG, PAGES 21-22
Law Concerning the Secret State Police of 10 February, 1936
The State Ministry resolved on the following law:
Section One
(1) The Secret State Police has the duty to investigate and to combat, in the entire territory of the State, all efforts inimical to the State. Furthermore, it has the duty to collect and evaluate the result of the investigations, to inform the government of the State, and to keep other authorities informed of results of significance to them and make suggestions to them. The Chief of the Secret State Police will determine, in conjunction with the Minister of the Interior, which particular duties should be transferred to the Secret State Police.
(2) The jurisdiction of the organs of the regular administration of justice is not affected.
Section Two
(1) The President of the Ministerial Council is the Chief of the Secret State Police.
(2) The Deputy Chief of the Secret State Police appointed by the Chief takes charge of the official business for him.
Section Three
(1) The Secret State Police Office is the highest provincial authority [L'andesbehoerde] of the Secret State Police. This office also has the powers of a provincial police authority.
(2) The Secret State Police Office has its seat in Berlin.
Section Four
On the provincial level [Mittelinstanz] the duties of the Secret State Police are performed by the State Police Offices for the individual provincial police districts. The duties of the Secret State Police at the border are performed by special border police agents. Otherwise the tasks of the Secret State Police are executed by the county and local police authorities in their capacity as auxiliaries of the State Police Offices.
Section Five
The State Police Offices are also subordinate to the competent Provincial Governors [Regierungspraesidenten]. They must follow the directives of the latter and inform them about all police
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affairs which are of a political nature. The Chiefs of the State Police Offices are also political consultants of the Provincial Governors [Regierungspraesidenten].
Section Six
The Chief of the Secret State Police, in conjunction with the Minister of the Interior appoints and dismisses the officials of the Secret State Police according to the general Reich legal provisions for the appointment and dismissal of provincial officials.
Section Seven
Orders and matters of the Secret State Police are not subject to the review on the part of the administrative courts.
Section Eight
Thé Chief of the Secret State Police, in conjunction with the Minister of the Interior, will issue the regulations for the -execution of this law. -Section Nine
The law on the establishment of a Secret State Police Office of 26 April 1933 (Gesetzsammlung 1933 p. 122), the Law on the Secret State Police of 30 November 1933 (Gesetzsammlung 1933 p. 413), and sections one to three of the Decree for the Execution of the Law on the Secret State Police of 8 March 1934 (Gesetzsammlung p. 143), are abolished.
Section Ten
This law takes effect on the day following its promulgation.
Berlin, 10 February 1936 The Prussian State Ministry
[Seal] Goering Frick
With the agreement of the Reich Cabinet I promulgate, in the name of the Reich, the above law for the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor
Berlin, 10 February 1936
The Prussian President of the Ministerial Council
Goering
1936 PREUSSISCHE GESETZSAMMLUNG PAGE 22
Decree for the Execution of the Law on the Secret State Police of 10 February 1936
The following is decreed on the basis of Sections One and Eight of the Law on the Secret State Police of 10 February 1936 (Gesetzsammlung 1936, p. 21):
Section One
The Secret State Police has the authority to make police in-
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vestigations in high treason and treason cases and in cases involving explosives (Sprengstoffsachen) and in other cases of criminal attacks on Party and State.
Section Two
1. The Secret State Police Office has the authority to enact, within the jurisdiction of the Secret State Police, measures within the entire area of the Province and measures affecting the entire area of the province.
2. The Secret State Police Office takes care of the authorized powers of the highest provincial authority in matters concerning the Lawson Fire-arms and Munition of 13 July 1928 (RGB I, p. 198).
3. The Secret State Police Office is the central office for collecting political-police intelligence.
4. The Secret State Police Office administers the concentration camps of the State.
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Berlin, 10 February 1936
President of the Prussian Ministerial Council Goering
The Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior
Frick.
Laws establishing the Secret State Police (Gestapo) as a "political police" force, declaring its standing relative to other state authorities, outlining its duties, and authorizing its role in investigations, intelligence, and administering the concentration camps
Authors
Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)
Hermann Göring
German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
- Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
- Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
- Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)
Johannes Popitz (Prof. Dr., Prussian ministries (1933-36))
Johannes Popitz
Prussian politician (1884-1945)
- Born: 1884-12-02 (Leipzig)
- Died: 1945-02-02 (Plötzensee Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: economist; jurist; politician; resistance fighter
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: German Archaeological Institute
- Position held: minister
- Employer: Humboldt University of Berlin
Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior; chief of Nazi delegation, Reichstag; admin. Plenipotentiary)
Wilhelm Frick
German Nazi official (1877-1946)
- Born: 1877-03-12 (Alsenz)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German Völkisch Freedom Party; National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: AGV München; Thule Society
- Participant in: Aryanization; Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Position held: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (period: 1943-08-24 through 1945-05-04; replaces: Konstantin von Neurath); Reichsminister des Innern (period: 1933-01-30 through 1943-08-20; replaced by: Heinrich Himmler; replaces: Franz Bracht); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Date: 26 April 1933
Literal Title: Law concerning the Establishment of a Secret State Police Office of April 26, 1933
Defendants: Wilhelm Frick, Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Total Pages: 6
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: L-82
HLSL Item No.: 453310
Notes:This document was apparently not entered in the case against Frick.
Trial Issues
Administration & organization (all cases) Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
L-82: Laws relating to organization and jurisdiction of Gestapo, April 26, 1933, Nov. 30, 1933, Feb. 10, 1936 (Preussiche Gesetzsammlung 1933, p. 122; ibid, p. 413; ibid, 1936, p. 21.22) sworn to as literal translations by R.M.W. Kempner
Laws relating to organization and jurisdiction of Gestapo April 26, 1933 Nov. 30, 1933 Feb 10, 1936 (Preussische Gesetzsammlun 1933 p. 122 ibid p. 413 ibid 1936 p. 21 22) sworn to as literal translation by R.M.W. Kempner