Poland Property Ordinance

Basic data
Title:	Ordinance on the Treatment of Property of Nationals of the Former Polish State
Short title:	Poland Property Ordinance (not official)
Type:	Imperial Ordinance
Scope:	German Empire
Legal matter:
Issued on:	September 17, 1940 ; (RGBl. I, 1940, p. 1270)
Entry into force on:
Weblink:	Text of the regulation (PDF)
	Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The Polish Property Ordinance ( Ordinance on the Treatment of Property of Members of the Former Polish State ) of September 17, 1940 ( RGBl I, 1940, p. 1270) regulated - partly comprehensively - the confiscation, temporary administration and confiscation of Polish private property within the German Empire with the incorporated Eastern Territories.

prehistory

In the first weeks after the occupation of Poland, the German occupation administrations unrestrainedly robbed the Jewish and Polish population. In November 1939, representatives of the German occupation authorities discussed how the planned deportations of Jews and nationally conscious Poles from the Warthegau should record, confiscate and collect their assets. Only gradually did Hermann Göring's newly founded main trust agency in the East become the all-powerful and unrivaled central institution of the process, with the previous Aryanizations in the Reich, Austria and the Protectorate serving as a model. Only after months of negotiations with the Reich Ministry of Economics and other departments was the Polish Property Ordinance subsequently created a legalistic framework for the deprivation of property.

Content of the law

In § 2 it says:

The seizure is to be pronounced in the case of assets a) from Jews, b) from persons who have fled or are not only temporarily absent.
The seizure can be pronounced a) if the property is required for the public good, in particular in the interests of the defense of the Reich or the consolidation of the German nationality .

Effects

The extent of the assets that the main trust agency in the east withdrew from its rightful owners in occupied Poland and also in the old Reich was immense.

Web links

Complete legal text (RGBl. I, 1940, pp. 1270–1273)

Individual evidence

↑ Ingo Loose: The expropriation of the Jews in occupied Poland 1939-1945 . In: Before the Annihilation . Edited by Katharina Stengel, Campus 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38371-2 , p. 289.
^ Document VEJ 4/44 in: Klaus-Peter Friedrich (edit.): The persecution and murder of the European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection) Volume 4: Poland - September 1939 – July 1941 , Munich 2011, ISBN 978 -3-486-58525-4 , pp. 151-152.
^ Ingo Loose: The Reich Ministry of Economics and the persecution of the Jews . In: Economic Policy in Germany 1917–1990 , De Gruyter 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-046281-4 , p. 464 ff.
^ ^A ^b Ingo Loose: The Reich Ministry of Economics and the persecution of the Jews . In: Economic Policy in Germany 1917–1990 , p. 465.

[1] Ingo Loose: The expropriation of the Jews in occupied Poland 1939-1945 . In: Before the Annihilation . Edited by Katharina Stengel, Campus 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38371-2 , p. 289.

[2] Document VEJ 4/44 in: Klaus-Peter Friedrich (edit.): The persecution and murder of the European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection) Volume 4: Poland - September 1939 – July 1941 , Munich 2011, ISBN 978 -3-486-58525-4 , pp. 151-152.

[3] Ingo Loose: The Reich Ministry of Economics and the persecution of the Jews . In: Economic Policy in Germany 1917–1990 , De Gruyter 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-046281-4 , p. 464 ff.

[loose-4] A ^b Ingo Loose: The Reich Ministry of Economics and the persecution of the Jews . In: Economic Policy in Germany 1917–1990 , p. 465.