OFFICIAL GAZETTE FOR THE OCCUPIED DUTCH TERRITORIES, YEAR 1941
[Verordnungsblatt fuer die besetzten Niederlaendischen , Gebiete] Part 8, Page 137.
First Order of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Dutch Territories concerning Extraordinary Measures of a Constitutional and Administrative Nature,
March 1, 1941.
Pursuant to Section 3 of the decree of the Fuehrer concerning the exercise of governmental authority in the Netherlands of May 18, 1940 (RGB1, I, p. 778), I hereby order as follows:
Section 1
The following provisions shall apply to the Administration of those communities for which the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Netherlands territories shall deem their application necessary.
Section 2
(1) The municipal Councils, the Joint Boards of the Mayors and Aldermen, and all other municipal boards or commissions shall be and hereby are dissolved.
(2) The powers, provisions, and duties vested in or imposed upon the agencies dissolved in accordance with subsection 1 by virtue of statute or contractual provisions and the official powers and duties of the mayor shall be vested in a Government Commissioner.
(3) The dissolution of the Joint of the Mayor and Aldermen shall not affect the remaining activities of the Aldermen within the municipal administration unless it shall be otherwise provided in a specific instance.
Section 3
The Government Commissioner shall, with regard to, his official duties, be subject to the supervision of the Provincial Commission and the Secretary General in the Ministry of the Interior who may issue instructions binding on him.
Section 4
(1) Section I, No. 3, subsection I of Section 2, and Section 3 of Order No. 108/1940 (Fourth Order concerning certain Administrative Measures) shall be made applicable to the appointment and dismissal of the Government Commissioner.
(2) The Government Commissioner, at his free discretion, shall appoint and dismiss the aldermen. In provincial capitals
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and in communities with more than 50,000 inhabitants the appointment and dismissal by the Government Commissioner shall be subject to the consent of the Secretary General in the Ministry of the Interior.
Section 5 .
The Government Commissioner shall appoint no less than four and no more than eight persons from among the inhabitants, who shall advise him in the fulfillment of his official duties. They shall be designated as "Advisors of the Government Commissioner." . .
. Section 6
(1) The Reich Commissioner for the occupied Netherlands territories will by order, determine the municipalities to which the provisions of this order shall apply.
(2) Such order shall be published in the "Verordnungsblatt fuer die besetzten Niederlaendischen Gebiete."
Section 7
Rules and regulations necessary for the enforcement of this order may be issued in the form of an administrative order.
Section 8
This order shall take effect as of the date of publication.
The Hague, March 1, 1941.
Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Dutch Territories SEYSS-INQUART
Order dissolving municipal authorities in the Netherlands and establishing new authorities under the control of the government
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: 01 March 1941
Literal Title: First Order of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories concerning Extraordinary Measures of a Constitutional and Administrative Nature, March1, 1941.
Defendant: Arthur Seyss-Inquart
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-3340
HLSL Item No.: 453263
Notes:This document was apparently not entered as evidence.