Declaration for National Socialist MPs

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The declaration for National Socialist MPs (also: Declaration of Loyalty and Commitment by candidates of the NSDAP) was a five-point declaration on honor that the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) had requested of each of its members of the Landtag and Reichstag since 1932.

Immediately after the Prussian state elections of March 1932, the NSDAP leadership began to submit a uniform declaration to every person who had been elected as a NSDAP candidate in a state parliament or the Reichstag - be it as a representative of an electoral district or on the Reich election proposal. in which the person in question had to give the party several honorary assurances as the basis of their parliamentary activity or entered into several honorary commitments to the party. According to the understanding of the party, this declaration should guarantee the ideological purity of the activities of the NSDAP MPs as the parliamentary representatives of "the movement" and their cooperation within the NSDAP parliamentary group.

The statements were handed over to the MPs by the leadership of the NSDAP, who signed them with a dated signature and then sent them back to Hans Fabricius , the parliamentary group manager , who collected them centrally so that he could refer to them if necessary.

The content of the declaration

The declaration included the following points:

  • "1) I affirm that I have no ties or relationships with Jews ."
  • "2) I do not insure that I will hold any supervisory board positions in banks or other companies."
  • "3) I undertake on an honorary basis that I will not take on any such posts during the time I am a member, either directly or indirectly through third parties."
  • "4) On my word of honor, as a member of the NSDAP, I undertake to protect the interests of the party at all times, to recognize the 25 program items in principle and to submit to Adolf Hitler and his orders."
  • "5) I continue to undertake on an honorary basis that, even if I leave the NSDAP, I will not join any other party as a member and will not declare myself non-attached, but will resign my mandate at the request of the party leadership in such a case."

A variant not divided into points for the Prussian state parliament that was used for a short time read:

  • “As a National Socialist, I hereby declare on my word of honor that I always want to exercise the mandate given to me by Adolf Hitler and the Prussian voters to the Prussian state parliament in the interests of my Führer. As soon as the Führer Adolf Hitler removes me from my mandate, I declare, on my word of honor, to follow his instructions. In the event of my expulsion from the party, I will of course hand my mandate back into the hands of Adolf Hitler and my Prussian voters. "

literature

  • Reinhard Figge: The opposition of the NSDAP in the Reichstag , 1963.

Archival material

  • Federal Archives: holdings of the NSDAP parliamentary group (NS 46), file 29 (collection of received declarations of commitment)