1933 PREUSSISCHE GESETZAMMLUNG, PAGE 122
Law on the organization of a Secret State Police Office
The State Ministry has resolved on the following law:
Article 1
(1) The Secret State Police, with headquarters in Berlin, is organized in order to carry out the duties of political police with or in place of the ordinary police authorities (Article 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 higher police authority and is subordinate only 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 higher police authorities are applicable in so far as the Administrative Court in Berlin has exclusive jurisdiction over court appeals against orders of the Secret State Police Office.
Article 2
Within its jurisdiction, the Secret State Police Office can make requests for police action to all police authorities.
Article 3
The Minister of the Interior is entitled to issue administrative orders for the execution of this law. He acts in agreement with the Minister of Finance in regard to the number and type of officials and employees who should be employed by the Secret State Police Office.
Article 4
The law goes into effect on the day of its promulgation.
Berlin 24 April, 1933
The Prussian Ministry of State
/ss/ Goering and by Popitz and for the Minister of the Interior
The above law, resolved by the Prussian State Ministry, is herewith promulgated.
Berlin 26 April 1933 /ss/ For the Reich Chancellor:
The Prussian Prime Minister
Goering
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Law establishing the Secret State Police (Gestapo) in Prussia, headquartered in Berlin
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
Date: 26 April 1933
Literal Title: 1933 Preussiche Gestzsammlung . . . Law on the organization of a Secret State Police Office
Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Total Pages: 2
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: PS-2104
Citation: IMT (page 1890)
HLSL Item No.: 451597
Notes:This document was entered for judicial notice without an exhibit number.
Trial Issues
Administration & organization (all cases) Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (…
Document Summary
PS-2104: Prussian law, 26 April 1933, establishing a secret state police department