Control Council Act No. 2

With the Control Council Act No. 2 passed by the Allied Control Council on October 10, 1945, the dissolution and liquidation of the Nazi organizations , the National Socialist German Workers' Party , its branches, its affiliated associations and the organizations dependent on it, including the semi-military organizations and all other Nazi institutions, became the created by the party as tools of its rule, abolished and declared illegal. The formation of any of these organizations, under the same name or under a different name, was prohibited.

At the same time, the entire property of the dissolved organizations, such as real estate, facilities, funds, accounts, archives and files, was confiscated.

Disbanded organizations

The law contains in the annex a list of 62 organizations to be dissolved:

1. National-socialist German Workers' Party
2. Party law firm
3. Chancellery of the leader of the NSDAP
4. Foreign organization
5. Volksbund for Germanness abroad
6. Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle
7. Official party examination commission for the protection of Nazi literature
8. Reich organizational leader of the NSDAP
9. Reich treasurer of the NSDAP
10. " Rosenberg Office "
11. Reich propaganda leader of the NSDAP
12. Reichsleiter for the press and central publishing house of the NSDAP (rather publishing house)
13. Reich Press Chief of the NSDAP
14. Reich Office for the Country People
15. Main Office for Public Health
16. Main office for educators
17. Main office for local politics
18. Main office for civil servants
19. Representative of the NSDAP for all ethnicity issues
20. Race Political Office of the NSDAP
21. Office for kin research
22. Colonial Political Office of the NSDAP
23. Foreign policy office of the NSDAP
24. Reichstag parliamentary group of the NSDAP
25. Reichsfrauenführung
26. NSD Medical Association
27. Main office for technology
28. National Socialist Association of German Technicians
29. Nazi teachers' association
30. Reich Federation of German Officials
31. Reichskolonialbund
32. Nazi women
33. National Socialist Federation of German Sisters
34. German women's organization
35. Reich student leadership
36. NSD student union
37. German student body
38. Nazi lecturers' association
39. Nazi legal guardian association
40. NS-Altherrenbund der Deutschen Studenten
41. Reichsbund German Family
42. German labor front
43. NS-Reichsbund for physical exercises
44. NS-Reichskriegerbund (Kyffhäuserbund)
45. Reich Chamber of Culture
46. German community day
47. secret State Police
48. German hunters
49. Advisory Board on Population and Racial Policy
50. Reich Committee for the Protection of German Blood
51. Winter Relief Organization
52. Main office for war victims
53. NSKOV ( Nazi war victims' pension )
54. SA (Sturmabteilung), including the SA armed forces
55. SS (Schutzstaffeln), including the Waffen-SS , the SD (SS Security Service) and all departments that exercise command over the police and SS at the same time
56. NSKK (NS Motor Corps)
57. NSFK (Nazi Air Corps)
58. HJ (Hitler Youth) including its sub-organizations
59. RAD (Reich Labor Service)
60. OT (Organization Todt)
61. TENO (technical emergency aid)
62. National Socialist People's Welfare
63. Reich group of publicly appointed surveyors
64. BDM (Association of German Girls)

Distribution of the confiscated property

The distribution of the confiscated property was subject to regulation in a Control Council directive (Art. II of Law No. 2).

The Control Council Directive No. 50 of April 29, 1947 regulated the disposal of the assets of the organizations concerned.

Assets that were subject to destruction as war potential were destroyed, assets earmarked for reparation purposes and assets earmarked for occupation purposes used for those purposes.

In addition, assets should be returned to the government concerned , such as those that are subject to the Allied Control Authority's determination of the term reparation, as well as assets belonging to the victims of National Socialist persecution. The Military Government Law no. 59 also regulated the "restitution of identifiable property to victims of Nazi repression" in the American (1947) and British (1949) occupation zone.

Assets that the dissolved organizations of trade unions, co-operatives, political parties or other democratic organizations had appropriated should be returned to them; assets that had previously been used for purposes of aid, charity, religious or humanitarian purposes were to be used with their original purpose become.

Other assets were to be transferred by the Zone Commander on behalf of the Allied Control Authority to the government of the country or province where the assets were located.

Securities, cash balances and money claims were initially confiscated.

The liquidation of the assets of the insurance companies affiliated to the German Labor Front was specifically regulated in the Control Council Act No. 57 of August 30, 1947.

Personal property that had been confiscated from primarily guilty or incriminated National Socialists on the basis of the provisions of the Control Council Act No. 10 or other provisions issued in accordance with Control Council Directive No. 38 as an atonement in the event of a criminal conviction or in the arbitration chamber proceedings , was the Control Council Directive No. 57 of January 15, 1948 distributed accordingly.

Legislation after the end of the occupation

Law No. 2 was suspended for the Federal Republic of Germany by Law No. 16 of the Allied High Commission of December 16, 1949, and for the GDR by resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of September 20, 1955.

Directive No. 50 became largely ineffective for the Federal Republic of Germany with the law regulating the liabilities of National Socialist institutions and the legal relationships to their assets (NSVerbG) of March 17, 1965.

The law banning the NSDAP , enacted by the provisional Austrian state government on May 8, 1945, is still in force.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Control Council Act No. 2 - Dissolution and liquidation of the Nazi organizations. In: www.verfassungen.de. Retrieved January 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ added by Law No. 58 of August 30, 1947.
3. ↑ Directive No. 50 of the Control Council in Germany (1947). In: www.verfassungen.de. Retrieved January 29, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Federal Law Gazette I p. 79
5. ↑ Law regulating the liabilities of National Socialist institutions and the legal relationships to their assets of March 17, 1965 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 79), last amended by Article 2, paragraph 17 of the law of August 12, 2005 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 2354) has been changed. Retrieved August 25, 2018.

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