Law on the confiscation of property that is hostile to the people and the state

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Application by government director Georg Meydam in the administrative district of Königsberg . Reichsanzeiger , November 16, 1943

The law macro- about the recruitment and anti-state assets was on 14 July 1933 by the national government (by virtue of enabling law decided) to " social-democratic machinations serving capacity of anti-state to withdraw use in the long term" ( Reichsgesetzblatt 1933 I, p 479).

The law stipulated that in accordance with the law on the confiscation of communist property passed on May 26, 1933 (Reichsgesetzblatt 1933 I p. 293), property that was anti-popular and subversive was also to be confiscated . As before the Communist Party of Germany , the Social Democratic Party of Germany and its auxiliary and substitute organizations as well as things and rights that were used or intended for the promotion of Marxist or other, according to the determination of the Reich Minister of the Interior, anti-people and state-hostile endeavors were now also considered to be anti-people .

Both laws did not provide for compensation for confiscated objects, unless it was a question of rights of third parties for whom efforts within the meaning of the law could not be proven.

Application for Jewish property

In the case of the deportations - for example in the so-called factory action of 1943 - this law was used, among other things. The Jews held in the assembly camp , who were to be transported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , received a formal order from the bailiff, through which their entire property was confiscated. In such a decree it says:

“On the basis of § 1 of the law on the collection of communist property of May 26, 1933 ... in connection with the law on the collection of property hostile to the people and the state of July 14, 1933 [...] in conjunction with the decree of the Führer and Reich Chancellor on the utilization of the confiscated property of enemies of the Reich of May 29, 1941 (RGBl 1941 I, 303) the entire property withdrawn from the Jewess XY ... "

A deprivation of property cannot be directly deduced from the wording of these laws and decrees. This construction is only possible if the Jewish assets are considered “hostile to the people and the state” and Jews are declared enemies of the Reich. In the case of other transport destinations, the individual decision was not necessary because the 11th ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Act applied when crossing the German state border , which stipulated the deprivation of citizenship and property.

Override

This law was repealed by or as a result of the re-admission of the Social Democratic Party of Germany through laws of the zone commander in July 1945.

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Footnotes

  1. Wolf Gruner: Resistance in Rosenstrasse… Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-596-16883-X , p. 68.
  2. as a document printed by Hans Günther Adler : The secret truth. Theresienstadt documents. Tübingen 1958, p. 61 / text also in Walther Hofer : Der Nationalozialismus. Documents 1933-1945. FiTb 6084, revised. New edition Frankfurt / M. 1982, ISBN 3-596-26084-1 , p. 298f = [172]
  3. See the law on the confiscation of assets hostile to the people and the state on verfassungen.de, accessed on March 22, 2016.