Reich Office for Fish
The Reich Office for Fish was an institution in the German Reich from 1940 to 1945 as a business department of the main association of the German fish industry . The Reichsstelle had the task of regulating and monitoring the traffic with fish and fish products. The Reichsstelle was an agency of the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture .
Legal basis
The Reichsstelle was established by a regulation on the establishment of a Reichsstelle for fish , which was announced on November 18, 1940 by the Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture ( RGBl. I p. 1517). The ordinance (VO) came into force one week after its promulgation. The powers of its business area resulted from the provisions of the regulation on the movement of goods (Goods Movement Regulation ) in the version of August 18, 1939. The Reichsstelle was not an office of economic self-administration, but received its orders from the Reich and performed tasks of sovereign administration . Insofar as the Reich Office was active in the field of foreign exchange management , the issuing of import and export permits for fish and fish products or in the notification of orders in accordance with the Goods Movement Ordinance, the Reich Office was called the Reich Office for Fish as a monitoring office .
Organization of the Reich Office
The Reich Office was legally subordinate to the supervision of the Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture, who was able to issue instructions to the Executive Board as part of the management of the Reich Office . The details of the management were regulated by rules of procedure issued by the Reich Ministry. From the Goods Movement Ordinance, it emerged that the Reichsstelle was a legal person represented in and out of court by a board of directors. The members of the board were appointed by the Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture, who also regulated the appointment of deputies. The names of the board members and their deputies were announced in the German Reichsanzeiger . The seat of the Reich Office was in Berlin, Passauer Strasse 29–30.
Tasks
The tasks of the Reich Office as the business department of the main association of the German fishing industry in the trade with farmed fish and fish products were regulated by the ordinance on the public cultivation of agricultural products of August 27, 1939 (RGBl. I, p. 1521). A special notice was issued with regard to the goods for which the Reich Office was responsible. With the ordinance on the pricing of foreign goods ( Foreign Goods Price Ordinance ) of July 15, 1937 (RGBl. I, p. 881) and the related First Implementation Ordinance of August 10, 1937 (RGBl. I, p. 884), the Reichsstelle received the authorization for to set maximum and target prices for foreign fish and fish products and to determine trade margins at certain levels in their areas of expertise . In connection with the law on export and import bans of March 25, 1939 (RGBl. I, p. 578), the Reichsstelle was able to issue export and import permits in its field of activity.
From the provisions of the Goods Movement Ordinance, it emerged that the Reichsstelle could commission another agency with certain tasks from its business area. The commissioned body was subject to the instructions and guidelines of the Reich Office. The commissioned body did not have the right to issue orders, to obtain information of its own or to issue administrative or penal measures. With these regulation options, the Reichsstelle was able to expand the management of fish and fish products. In this way, distribution points could be set up which could lead individual decisions in the movement of goods to a greater "operational proximity". Economic chambers, district economic offices and economic offices were involved in these measures.
The ordinance on the obligation to provide information of July 13, 1923 gave the Reichsstelle a number of rights regarding information on samples and samples . The Reich Office was able to initiate monitoring measures and orders at customs and the Reichsbahn . There was neither a trade secret nor a right to refuse to testify vis-à-vis the Reich Office and its agents . In the event of violations or refusal to provide information, the Reich Office could issue administrative fines if there was a public interest. Otherwise, the Reichsstelle could also apply for administrative penal proceedings at the Reich Economic Court .
Personnel line-up (1944)
- Reich Commissioner and Board Member: Dr. Böllert
- Deputy board member: Bierstaedt
- Deputy Reich Commissioner: Groening
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Gaehtgens: From the monitoring body for the Reich Office. In: Foreign exchange archive. 1940, volume 24, ZDB -ID 500566-8 , col. 457-466, here: col. 462.
- ↑ Wolfgang Gaehtgens: From the monitoring body for the Reich Office. In: Foreign exchange archive. 1940, volume 24, ZDB -ID 500566-8 , col. 457-466, here: col. 464-465.
- ^ Handbook of the Reichsgau Vienna. Volume 65/66, 1942/1943 (1944), ZDB -ID 558120-5 , pp. 36-37.