1936 REICH MINISTERIAL GAZETTE [RMB1]— Part V, Pages 1344-5
Unified designation of the Offices of the Secret State Police in the Reich
(Decree of RF-SS and Chief of German . Police in the Reich Ministry of Interior 28 August 36)
After the Reichsfuehrer SS was installed as Chief of the German Police, the unified direction of all branches of the police and also the designation of the offices must become pronounced.
The greatest differences existed previously among the individual states [Laender] in the field of the political police. At present there are 17 different designations. The unified form of the credentials of the officials of the political police calls for a unified designation of their offices in order to eliminate confusion and misunderstanding among outsiders. Also the simplification of the business transactions calls for assimilation.
1. Therefore the political police of the German states will carry the designation of Secret State Police [Geheime Staatspolizei] from 1 October 1936 on.
2. The state central authorities of the Secret State Police carry the designation
a. in Prussia:
Secret State Police Bureau [Geheime Staatspolizeiamt]
b. in the rest of the state:
State police main office [Staatspolizeileitstelle] or State police office (Staatspolizeistelle) and so
in Baden State police main office Karlsruhe in Bayern State police main office Munich in Wuerttenburg- State police main office Stuttgart in Sachsen State police main office Dresden in Anhalt State police office Dessau in Braunschweig State police office Braunschweig in Bremen State police office Bremen in Hamburg State police office, Hamburg
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2372-PS
in Hessen State police office Darmstadt in Luebeck State police office Luebeck in Mecklenburg State police office Schwerin in Oldenburg State police office Oldenburg in Thueringen State police office Weimar The state police directive offices have the tasks of a state police office for the area of their jurisdiction, a final regulation hereon is withheld. * * *
To the Prussian secret state police office in Berlin, the political police of the exterior Prussian states. — For information to the Prussian Ministry President as chief of the Prussian secret state police, the state cabinet of exterior Prussia, the main office Ordnungs-Police, the Prussian state criminal police office in Berlin, the Prussian Supreme and Government President.
Decree designating all of the state political police forces as members of the Secret State Police (Gestapo)
Authors
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
Date: 28 August 1936
Literal Title: Unified designation of the Offices of the Secret State Police in the Reich
Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2372
Citation: IMT (page 1893)
HLSL Item No.: 451612
Notes:This document was entered for judicial notice without an exhibit number.