Law amending provisions of criminal law and criminal procedure
The law amending the provisions of criminal law and criminal procedure of April 24, 1934, was a law in Nazi Germany .
The law, also known as the "Treason Amendment", came into force on May 2, 1934. It tightened the criminal law provisions for high treason and treason , instead of (honorable) imprisonment , the threat of punishment was almost always imprisonment or death . At the same time, the criminal liability was extended to preparatory acts and attempt and completion were largely equated.
The law shifted the jurisdiction for high treason and state treason from the Reichsgericht , which was filled with professional judges, to the newly created People's Court with senates of two professional and three lay judges . Political crimes have now been tried by a special court; on April 18, 1936, the People's Court was designated as an ordinary court .
The law was repealed on September 20, 1945 with the Allied Control Council Act No. 1 concerning the repeal of Nazi law . Today the law is classified as typically National Socialist and contrary to the rule of law.
literature
- Official justification for the law amending provisions of criminal law and criminal proceedings of April 24, 1934. In: Deutsche Justiz 1934, pp. 595 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Kassecker: Penal Theory in the Third Reich: Development of the Penal Thought in the Third Reich. Berlin 2009 (Diss.Würzburg 2009), p. 80 ff.
- ↑ Law on the People's Court and on the twenty-fifth amendment to the Salary Act of April 18, 1936 , RGBl. I 1936, p. 369.
- ↑ BT-Drs. 16/13654, p. 4 ( PDF ).