Ordinance on the registration of property of Jews
The ordinance on the registration of property of Jews was an ordinance issued by Hermann Göring in the German Reich on April 26, 1938 ( RGBl. IS 414f.) . This was followed by the “Ordinance for the Implementation of the Ordinance on the Registration of Property of Jews” of June 18, 1938, in which the registration period originally set for June 30 was extended to July 31, 1938.
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The regulations required all Jewish citizens in the German Reich, including Austria , to register domestic and foreign assets if their total value was more than 5,000 Reichsmarks . Wrong information could face fines, imprisonment of up to ten years in prison and confiscation of property. According to § 7, the representative for the four-year plan could "take the measures necessary to ensure the use of the assets subject to registration in accordance with the interests of the German economy ."
Effects
The contemporary legal commentator Alf Krügers from the Reich Ministry of Economics described the regulation as the "trailblazer for the complete and final de-Jewishness of the German economy". An essential step in this direction was the expert opinion that the lawyer Hugo Dietrich prepared on June 20, 1938 on behalf of the Flick Group under the title "To the Ignaz Petschek Problem ", to examine the legal possibilities of an " Aryanization " of the company's assets Petschek . The first paragraph of this synopsis , a copy of which was sent to the Reich Ministry of Economics and the Office for the Four-Year Plan, read:
"Parag. 1. The agent for the four-year plan can appoint a trustee for any property that is subject to registration under the ordinance on the registration of property of Jews of April 26, 1938, whose powers the agent for the four-year plan stipulates in the deed of appointment. In particular, the trustee can be authorized to dispose of the assets with effect for or against the asset owner for an appropriate consideration. "
On April 29, 1938, in a ministerial meeting at Göring, the next goal was named "the conversion of Jewish assets [...] into values that no longer allow economic influence". As a first step, it was planned to compulsorily convert the specified shares of foreign companies into Reich bonds. This could generate urgently needed foreign exchange and at the same time accommodate another German government bond . In fact, this plan was only implemented in the “ Ordinance on the Use of Jewish Property ” of December 3, 1938. Hermann Göring later explained that in the meeting in April the decision had already been taken to “Aryanise the German economy, get the Jews out of the economy and into the debt register and put them on their pension. [...] The compensation is recorded in the debt register and a certain percentage of interest is paid. He has to live on it. "
The information obtained through this ordinance was later also used for the claims amounting to 25% of the property, which were punished from the Jews after the so-called Reichskristallnacht .
After the war, the statements of assets - as far as they have been preserved - turned out to be important documents for asserting previous ownership in compensation proceedings ( restitution ).
Further steps
The “ Third Ordinance to the Reich Citizenship Law ” of June 14, 1938, which required the registration of all Jewish businesses , is closely related to the recording of higher private assets . The " Ordinance on the Elimination of Jews from German Economic Life " of November 12, 1938 ordered the closure of these businesses at the end of the year, unless an extension of the deadline was requested for their "transfer into non-Jewish possession". In December 1938, the " Ordinance on the Use of Jewish Assets " followed, which introduced a deposit requirement for securities , regulated the timely sale of agricultural and forestry property and commercial enterprises, and prohibited private sales of precious metals and valuable art objects.
Jewish doctors and lawyers had their license to practice medicine or admission withdrawn in the autumn of 1938 by ordinances under the Reich Citizenship Act .
Validity period
The ordinance was formally repealed by the Control Council Act No. 1 on the repeal of Nazi law of September 20, 1945.
literature
- Götz Aly : Hitler's People's State. Robbery, Race War and National Socialism. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-10-000420-5 , pp. 55/56.
Web links
- Ordinance on the registration of property of Jews (Antiqua script)
- Ordinance on the registration of property of Jews
Individual evidence
- ↑ Götz Aly: Hitler's People's State. Frankfurt / M. 2005, pp. 55/56.
- ↑ Götz Aly : Hitler's People's State. P. 56. Source quotation from Alf Krüger: The solution of the Jewish question in the German economy. Commentary on the Jewish legislation . Limpert Verlag, Berlin 1940, p. 211.
- ↑ Thomas Ramge: Die Flicks: a German family story about money, power and politics. Campus Verlag 2004. p. 109. Partial online view
- ↑ Götz Aly: Hitler's People's State. P. 57.
- ↑ Götz Aly: Hitler's People's State. P. 58.