Reich Committee for the Protection of German Blood

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The Reich Committee for the Protection of German Blood was a body that existed during the Nazi era , which dealt with applications for marriage permits from "Jewish mixed race" wishing to marry , which became necessary after the Nuremberg Laws came into force in 1935 and met from 1936 to 1937.

background

According to the implementing ordinance to the Blood Protection Act , a permit was required for the marriage of " half- breeds of the first degree" (so - called half - Jews ) with a "mixed race of the second degree" or a " German-blooded " spouse. A long and multi-stage test procedure was planned for this.

In the first place, a physical examination by a competent health authority was required, with the engaged couple being examined “physically, physically and genetically”. Numerous applicants have already failed here. Police clearance certificates and statements from the Gauamt für Volksgesundheit (Gau Office for Public Health) and the NSDAP Gau leadership also had to be attached to the application. On this basis, a representative of the state interior ministry made a recommendation and passed the material on to the “Reich Committee for Marriage Permits”, which shortly thereafter traded as the “Reich Committee for the Protection of German Blood”. However, his decision was not binding either.

organization

On the basis of the circular of December 23, 1935 ( Reichsministerialblatt 1935, p. 881; Reichsministerialblatt der Innere Verwaltung 1936, p. 11), the Reich Committee for Marriage Matters and the Reich Committee for Marriage Permits was formed at the Reich Ministry of the Interior and from January 1936 into the Reich Committee for Protection of the German blood ( Reichsministerialblatt der internal administration , p. 21) renamed. It was regarded as the decision-making body on the admissibility of marriages of "mixed Jewish people" with Germans and met for the first time on June 9, 1936. It consisted of 7 members appointed by Adolf Hitler at the suggestion of the deputy of the Führer Rudolf Hess and the Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick , who held twelve meetings in the year of its existence. Most of the full members were only present at the constituent meeting and were later represented by their deputies elected there.

Members

Ordinary members

Deputy members

activity

By the 11th meeting of the committee in March 1937, 712 applications had been received, which led to 98 rejections and the assessment of 13 cases of doubt. The great majority of the applications remained unprocessed. Once the committee had made its recommendation, the interior minister and the Führer’s deputy should make a final decision. The regional authorities later forwarded the applications directly to the Reich Ministry of the Interior, until processing there was generally stopped with a decree of March 1942. Overall, only a very small number (well under 1%) of the applications were approved.

After the end of the war

The Reich Committee for the Protection of German Blood was formally dissolved and forbidden by the Allied Control Council on October 10, 1945 with the Control Council Act No. 2 (Article I, 2. Appendix No. 50).

In 1950 a “Federal Law on the Recognition of Free Marriages” (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 226) was passed for politically persecuted people who had been refused marriage due to National Socialist laws.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First ordinance for the implementation of the law for the protection of German blood and German honor of November 14, 1935 (RGBl. I, 1334)
  2. ↑ Beate Meyer: Jewish mixed race. Racial policy and experience of persecution 1933 - 1945. Hamburg 1999, p. 175.
  3. ↑ Sybille Baumbach: Flashbacks. Biographical interviews with those persecuted by the Nazi regime in Hamburg. Hamburg 1999, p. 145.
  4. ↑ Alexandra Przyrembel: Rassenschande. Purity myth and legitimation for extermination under National Socialism. Göttingen 2003, p. 311.
  5. ↑ Uwe Dietrich Adam: Jewish policy in the Third Reich. Düsseldorf 1972, p. 145 (incorrectly speaking of 17 members here)
  6. ↑ Alexandra Przyrembel: Rassenschande. Purity myth and legitimation for extermination under National Socialism. Göttingen 2003, p. 311.
  7. ↑ Beate Meyer: Jewish mixed race. Racial policy and experience of persecution 1933 - 1945. Hamburg 1999, p. 170.
  8. ^ To: The archive. Reference book for politics, economics, culture. Berlin 1936, p. 1445. And: Beate Meyer: Jüdische Mischlinge. Racial policy and experience of persecution 1933 - 1945. Hamburg 1999, p. 170.
  9. ^ Robert N. Proctor : Racial hygiene. Medicine under the Nazis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1988, ISBN 0-674-74578-7 , p. 135.
  10. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 72.
  11. ↑ Handbook on the Prussian State , published by the Prussian State Ministry for 1935, p. 362.
  12. ↑ Beate Meyer: Jewish mixed race. Racial politics and experience of persecution 1933 - 1945. Hamburg 1999, p. 172.
  13. ↑ Beate Meyer: Jewish mixed race. Racial politics and experience of persecution 1933 - 1945. Hamburg 1999, p. 167.
  14. ↑ Alexandra Przyrembel: Rassenschande. Purity myth and legitimation for extermination under National Socialism. Göttingen 2003, p. 310.
  15. ↑ See: Frank Bajohr and Joachim Szodrzinski: Hamburg in the Nazi era. Results of recent research. Hamburg 1995, p. 133.