People's Code

The Volksgesetzbuch (VGB) was the attempt of the Academy of German Law organized lawyers of the Third Reich, the Civil Code by the principles of National Socialism oriented civil law book to replace.

From 1939 Justus W. Hedemann was in charge of the project. A total of eight books were planned. Up to 19 committees with at times up to 200 employees should create the following parts of VGB "popular" in language held designs: personal law , family law , inheritance law , contract law , property law , labor law , corporate law and company law . At the end of 1942 the draft for Book I Der Volksgenosse was published. This draft was preceded by 25 basic rules, some of which were based very closely on the program of the NSDAP. However, the Reich Ministry of Justice decided to postpone it until the end of the war . Work on it was stopped in 1944 together with the closure of the Academy for German Law by Reich Justice Minister Thierack .

literature

• Gert Brüggemeier : The supreme law is the good of the German people . In: Juristenteitung , Vol. 45 (1990), pp. 24-28, ISSN  0022-6882
• Hans Hattenhauer : The NS People's Code . In: Arno Buschmann u. a. (Ed.): Festschrift Rudolf Gmür for his 70th birthday . Gieseking Verlag, Bielefeld 1983, pp. 255-279, ISBN 3-7694-0615-X .
• Werner Schubert (Ed.): People's Code. Partial drafts, work reports and other materials . Verlag De Gruyter, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-11-011728-2 .
• Michael Stolleis : People's Code . In: Albrecht Cordes u. a. (Ed.): Concise Dictionary of German Legal History , Vol. 5 . Verlag Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1998, Sp. 990-992.