1939 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 1547
Law regarding the reunion of the Free City of Danzig with the German Reich Of the 1st September, 1939
The Reichstag has unanimously passed the following law which is hereby announced:
Par. 1
The constitutional law issued by the Head of the State of the Free City of Danzig about the . reunion of Danzig with the German Reich hereby becomes a Reich law. It runs as follows:
Article I: The constitution of the Free City of Danzig is cancelled with immediate effect.
Article II: All legislative and executive power will be exercised exclusively by the Head of the State.
Article III: The Free City of Danzig, with its territory and population, forms part of the German Reich with immediate effect.
Article IV: Till the Fuehrer lays down final regulations about the introduction of the laws of the German Reich, all the legal regulations that are in force at the time this constitutional law is published will remain in force, with the exception of the constitution.
Danzig, the 1st September 1939.
ALBERT FORSTER
Par. 2 '
Citizens of the former Free City of Danzig are German citizens within the limits of more detailed regulations.
Par. 3
In the area of the former Free City of Danzig the present laws in force will remain valid until further notice, with the exception of the constitution of the Free City of Danzig.
Par. 4
(1) In the former Free City of Danzig the whole of Reich and Russian state legislation comes into force on the 1st January
1940.
3077—PS
(2) The Reich Minister concerned can lay down, in agreement with the Reich Minister of the Interior, that Reich or Prussian state legislation shall hot come into force, or shall come into force later or with special regulations in the former Free City of Danzig. Such decisions need to be published in the Reichsgesetzblatt.
(3) By the 31st December 1939 the Minister of the Interior can introduce Reich and Prussian State law by a decree, in agreement with the Reich Ministers concerned.
Par. 5
. (1) The Central authority for the reunion of Danzig with the ' German Reich is the Reich Minister of the Interior.
Par. 6
This law comes into force on the 1st September 1939.
Berlin, the 1st September 1939.
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor
Adolf Hitler
The Reich Minister of the Interior . Frick
The Fuehrer's Deputy r R. Hess
The Commissioner for the 4-year plan " Goering
General Field Marshal, Prime Minister of Prussia
The Minister for Foreign Affairs von Ribbentrop
The Reich Minister & Chief of the Reich Chancellery
Dr. Lammers
Law incorporating Danzig into the German Reich, abolishing the Danzig constitution, and providing for administrative supervision by the Minister of the Interior (Frick)
Authors
Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)
Adolf Hitler
Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)
- Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
- Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
- Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
- Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
- Member of: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
- Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin
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
Rudolf Hess (Deputy to the Fuehrer; minister without portfolio)
Rudolf Hess
German Nazi leader (1894-1987)
- Born: 1894-04-26 (Alexandria)
- Died: 1987-08-17 (Spandau Prison) (located in the administrative territorial entity: West Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
- Military rank: lieutenant
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)
Joachim Ribbentrop, von (Minister for Foreign Affairs (1938-45))
Joachim von Ribbentrop
German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)
- Born: 1893-04-30 (Wesel)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel; Travellers Club
- Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Military rank: Oberleutnant
Hans H. Lammers (Dr., Chief of Reich Chancellery)
Hans H. Lammers
German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)
- Born: 1879-05-27 (Lubliniec)
- Died: 1962-01-04 (Düsseldorf)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German National People's Party (until: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant, witness)
- Significant person: Adolf Hitler (role: superior); Karl Brandt (role: colleague)
Albert Forster (Danzig (1939))
Albert Forster
- Additional details not yet available.
Date: 01 September 1939
Literal Title: R.G.Bl 1939 . . . Law regarding the reunion of the Free City of Danzig with the German Reich of the 1st September 1939.
Defendants: Wilhelm Frick, Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim Ribbentrop, von
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-3077
HLSL Item No.: 453715
Notes:The first paragraph is a decree signed by Forster, head of the Danzig government at the time. Another copy of PS 3077 was entered as Frick exhibit 20; this copy was apparently not entered in the case against Hess.
Trial Issue
Document Summary
PS-3077: Fuehrer decree, 1 September 1939, signed by LAMMERS: