Law on State Emergency Measures
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| Title: | Law on State Emergency Measures |
| Short title: | State Emergency Defense Act (not official) |
| Type: | Imperial Law |
| Scope: | Germany |
| Legal matter: | Public law |
| Issued on: | July 3, 1934 (RGBl. I p. 529) |
| Entry into force on: | 4th July 1934 |
| Expiry: | January 30, 1946 |
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Wikisource: State Emergency Defense Act - Sources and full texts
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With the law on measures of the state emergency service of July 3, 1934, the leadership of the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler wanted to justify the actions of the National Socialists , which were committed against the so-called Röhm putschists .
The law consisted of a single sentence:
The measures taken on June 30, July 1 and July 2, 1934 to suppress attacks on treason and treason are legal as state emergency services.
It was signed by Hitler as Reich Chancellor, Wilhelm Frick ( Reich Minister of the Interior ) and Franz Gürtner ( Reich Minister of Justice ) and is considered a prototype of National Socialist injustice, as the government rose to be the judge in its own right. In his speech to the Reichstag on July 13, 1934, Hitler described himself as "the highest judge of the German people" and the Reichstag approved the declaration and expressly thanked him for saving himself from civil war and chaos. Carl Schmitt justified the death orders as acts of real jurisdiction in the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung of August 1, 1934 in an article entitled “The Führer Protects Law”.
The law was repealed by Law No. 11 of the Allied Control Council for Germany of January 30, 1946 (OJ p. 55).
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Werle: Judicial criminal law and police fight against crime in the Third Reich . de Gruyter 1989, ISBN 3-11-011964-1 , p. 135 f.