Goering Speer Regulation

Basic data
Title:	Ordinance on the Treatment of Fellowship Members' inventions; ; Implementing Ordinance for the Ordinance on the Treatment of Inventions by Followers
Short title:	Göring Speer Ordinance ( coll. )
Type:	Ordinance
Scope:	German Empire , ; Federal Republic of Germany
Issued on the basis of:	Sentence 3 VO of October 18, 1936 ; ( RGBl. I p. 887)
Legal matter:	Intellectual Property
Issued on:	July 12, 1942 (RGBl. I p. 466); ; March 20, 1943 (RGBl. I p. 257)
Entry into force on:	July 22, 1942
Expiry:	October 1, 1957 ; (Section 46 G of July 25, 1957, Federal Law Gazette I pp. 756, 764)
	Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

Implementing ordinance of March 20, 1943

The so-called Göring Speer Ordinance reorganized German employee invention law with effect from July 22, 1942 . The aim was to promote inventions by members of the workforce ( called followers in National Socialist terminology ) to increase the performance of the economy and, above all, armaments. Its lasting importance lies in the fact that it created the basis for the German employee invention law that is still in force today. On closer inspection, it consisted of two ordinances :

Ordinance on the handling of inventions by members of the allegiance of July 12, 1942 by Hermann Göring , agent for the four-year plan .
Implementing ordinance for the ordinance on the treatment of inventions by members of the followers of March 20, 1943 by Albert Speer , Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition.

In the implementing ordinance of 1943, which came into force retrospectively together with the ordinance of 1942, the following were regulated:

Operational support for the inventor
Obligation to report inventions to the entrepreneur
Procedure for claims by the entrepreneur
Claim for remuneration of the inventor
Settlement of legal disputes

The two ordinances were repealed in 1957 with the then newly created law on employee inventions (ArbNErfG). In the ArbNErfG, the principles of intellectual property established in the Third Reich , its transfer to the employer and the inventor's entitlement to remuneration were largely adopted, as was the basic procedure for reporting and claiming inventions. This in no way speaks against the ArbNErfG, which is still valid today with minor modifications, but merely shows that in this special case in 1943 a legal foundation that is still useful today was laid.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Peter Koblank: The Göring Speer Ordinance. Employee Invention Law in the Third Reich , December 2012, available online (with the full text of the ordinance and the implementing ordinance) in: Best of Koblank .
↑ Reichsgesetzblatt I 1942 pp. 466–467. Publication and Effective Date: July 22, 1942.
↑ Reichsgesetzblatt I 1943 pp. 257–260. Date of publication: April 16, 1943. Effective retrospectively on July 22, 1942.
^ Text of the law on employee inventions .
^ Heinz Goddar: The legal situation of employed inventors. Legal framework of the relationship between employed inventors and employers. Incentive systems encouraging creativity. ( MS Word ; 303 kB) Munich 2003, accessed on November 19, 2012.

[koblank-1] Peter Koblank: The Göring Speer Ordinance. Employee Invention Law in the Third Reich , December 2012, available online (with the full text of the ordinance and the implementing ordinance) in: Best of Koblank .

[2] Reichsgesetzblatt I 1942 pp. 466–467. Publication and Effective Date: July 22, 1942.

[3] Reichsgesetzblatt I 1943 pp. 257–260. Date of publication: April 16, 1943. Effective retrospectively on July 22, 1942.

[4] Text of the law on employee inventions .

[5] Heinz Goddar: The legal situation of employed inventors. Legal framework of the relationship between employed inventors and employers. Incentive systems encouraging creativity. ( MS Word ; 303 kB) Munich 2003, accessed on November 19, 2012.