OFFICIAL GAZETTE FOR THE OCCUPIED DUTCH TERRITORIES, YEAR 1941
{Verordnungsblatt fuer die besetzten Niederländischen Gebiete]
Part 8, Page 143.
Order of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Dutch Territories concerning Marriages of Male Persons of German Nationality in the Occupied Netherlands Territories, and Related Matters, February 28, 1941.
In pursuance of Section 5 of the decrees of the Fuehrer concerning the exercise of governmental authority in the Netherlands of May 18, 1940 (RGBl, I, p. 778), I hereby order as follows:
Section 1
(1) The marriage of a male person of German nationality shall have validity only if the marriage ceremony is performed by a German official.
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Section 4
(1) Upon the application of a female person of Netherlands nationality intending to marry a German and requiring for such marriage, in accordance with Articles 92-98 of the Netherlands Civil Code, the consent of her parents, grandparents, guardian, or guardians, the approval of the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Netherlands territories (through the Commissioner General for Administration of Justice) may be substituted for such consent.
Section 5
On application of a female person of Netherlands nationality intending to marry a German national, the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Netherlands territories (through the Commissioner General for the Administration of Justice) may grant dispensation from the observance of the waiting period required in accordance with Articles 91 and 103 of the Netherlands Civil Code.
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The Hague, February 28, 1941.
Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Dutch Territories
SEYSS-INQUART
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Order requiring that a marriage of a German must be performed by a German official, and procedures for the approval of the marriage of a Dutch woman to a German man
Authors
Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Nazi official, Austria, Poland, Netherlands)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Austrian Nazi politician, and Nazi ruler of occupied Netherlands, convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death (1892-1946)
- Born: 1892-07-22 (Stonařov)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Austria; Austria-Hungary; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: Fatherland Front; Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Position held: Federal Chancellor of Austria (period: 1938-03-11 through 1938-03-13; replaced by: Anschluss; replaces: Kurt Schuschnigg); Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (period: 1945-04-30 through 1945-05-02; replaced by: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk; replaces: Joachim von Ribbentrop); Reichskommissar; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
- Employer: Austrian Federal Government; Reichskommissariat Niederlande
Official Gazette for the Occupied Netherlands Territories (German regime)
Date: 28 February 1941
Literal Title: Order of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories concerning Marriages of Male Persons of German Nationality in the Occupied Netherlands Territories, and Related Matters, February 28, 1941.
Defendant: Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Total Pages: 1
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-3339
HLSL Item No.: 453262
Notes:This document was apparently not entered as evidence.