DECREES, REGULATIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS [Verfuegungen, Anordnungen, Bekanntgaben], issued by the Party Chancellery, Published by the Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, Munich, Vol. II, Pages 507-513.
MANPOWER [Arbeitseinsatz]
The Plenipotentiary General [Der Generalbevollmaechtigte] for Manpower.
Appointment of the Plenipotentiary General for Manpower. Circular 12/42 g, 22 March 1942
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[Translator's Note: Above is quoted the decree appointing Sauckel Plenipotentiary General for Manpower in direct placement under the Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan, Goer-ing. See Document 1666-PS.]
Party Comrade [Parteigenosse] Sauckel has suggested—and I have agreed—that the Gau leaders shall become active as his
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plenipotentiaries within the Gaus. Hereby the cooperation of all forces of party, state, and economy will be guaranteed definitely.
By the leadership of the party in full appreciation of the competence of the corresponding Reich authorities, the highest efficiency in the field of manpower shall be guaranteed. This circular has solely the purpose of giving information. Orders for the execution of your work will be transferred to you through Party Comrade Sauckel shortly. It goes without saying that the party gives him the best support for his responsible work.
Plenipotentiary General for Manpower Executive Regulation
Circular 14/42 g, 31 March 1942
In addition to circular number 12/42 g, 22 March 1942, about the appointment of Gau Leader Party Comrade Sauckel as Plenipotentiary General for Manpower, I announce herewith the executive regulation of the Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan cf 27 March 1942 as follows:
The REICH MARSHALL OF GREATER GERMANY, Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan, 27 March 1942 In execution of the attached decree of the Fuehrer of 21 March,
I hereby order the following:
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At the disposal of the Plenipotentiary for Manpower for the execution of his tasks is the right to issue orders to the supreme Reich authorities, their subordinate agencies, also the agencies of the party, its member organizations and affiliated organizations, to the Reich Protector, the Governor General, to the military commanders, and to heads of the civil administrations, as authorized by the Fuehrer. As to orders and measures of a principal nature, report has to be made to me in advance.
Decrees of the Plenipotentiary General for Manpower Order I. 53/712, 29 July 1942
The Chancellery of the Party submits herewith a list of the decrees issued to date by the Plenipotentiary General for Manpower.
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Order Number 1 of the Plenipotentiary General for Manpoiver About Appointment and Tasks of his Plenipotentiaries, 6 April
1942.
I herewith appoint the Gau leaders of the NSDAP as my plenipotentaries for manpower within their respective Gaus.
A. Their tasks are:
1. Establishment of a harmonious cooperation of all agencies of the state, of the party, of the armed forces, and of the Economy, charged with problems of manpower and thus to create agreement between the different conceptions and requirements to obtain the highest efficiency in the field of manpower. (It has to be considered hereby that in the military districts it is up to the Reich defense commissar to guarantee the liaison between civil authorities and the agencies of the Wehrmacht in accordance with their tasks under the administrative order of 1 September 1939. (Reichgesetzblatt I, page 1565).
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B. Execution
1. The president of the provincial labor offices [Landesarbeit-saemter] and their staffs are herewith directed to be at the disposal of the Gau leaders for information and advice and to fulfill the suggestions and demands of the Gau leader for the purpose of improvements for manpower within the framework of the existing regulations, laws, and orderly business procedure. Concerning this, there will be special regulations.
2. The authorities of the general and internal administration, and of the economy as well, especially the agricultural offices and provincial food offices, are also to hold themselves at the disposal of the Gau leaders for cooperation concerning manpower, in agreement with the competent Reich ministers, and with consideration of their service regulations. Concerning this there will be special directives. The organizations of the professional economy also have to participate.
By the above-mentioned commission of the Gau leaders of the NSDAP, I intend to lead manpower utilization to the greatest success for the German armament economy, war economy, and food economy as far as concerns the responsibility of the agencies of the party, of the state, of the armed forces, and of the organizations of the economy in relation to their supreme authorities. For this purpose, I also intend especially to use the powerful internal forces of the national socialist ideology involved in the field of human care and human leadership.
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Order No. 2 of the Plenipotentiary General for Manpower about the guarantee of the unification of the execution of the tasks in the field of manpower and wage policy.
The fulfillment of the task given to me by the Fuehrer requires the greatest concentration of the agencies which are responsible for the direction of manpower and wage policy and their unified direction for the given goal. I have taken the required measures. In doing this, I have directed the attention of the above mentioned agencies expressly to the need for a closer and more faithful cooperation with the corresponding agencies of the party and the state as well as of the economy, and have issued corresponding orders. Further I have appointed the Gau leaders of the NSDAP as my plenipotentiaries for manpower within their respective Gaus and have conferred upon them as special tasks the establishment of harmonious cooperation with all agencies in charge of manpower problems. The conditions for an efficient and harmonious cooperation of all effective forces in the field of manpower and wage policy are thereby established.
Beyond this it is a prerequisite for the success of the task that from now on all those agencies of the party, of the state and of the economy, the heads of all other offices, institutions and persons who are not responsible for the direction of manpower and wage policy, refrain from any influence concerning the above mentioned tasks, except when they are expressly asked for cooperation.
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Manpower Utilization of Eastern Workers. Leaflets for Factory Heads and Eastern Workers.
Circular 122/42, 4 August 1942
According to a demand of the Plenipotentiary General for Manpower, Gau leader Sauckel, I recommend that the "Bearers of Sovereignty" [Hoheitstraeger] inform themselves occasionally of the execution of the regulations issued for the utilization of Eastern Workers within the factories. This involvement of the "Bearers of Sovereignty" appears necessary to control the factory heads in the execution of the decrees issued by the Plenipotentiary General for Manpower, and on the other hand to avoid that the politically inept factory heads give too much consideration to the care of the Eastern workers and thereby cause justified annoyance among the German workers.
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Instructions concerning the manpower system, including the role of gau (district) leaders in mobilizing manpower, and for the management of eastern workers in a way that avoids antagonizing German workers
Authors
Fritz Sauckel (Plenipotentiary for Labor Mobilization)
Fritz Sauckel
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1894-1946)
- Born: 1894-10-27 (Haßfurt) (located in the administrative territorial entity: Bavaria)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: item/value with less precision and/or accuracy; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund; Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: International Military Tribunal (date: 1946-09-23; role: affiant, defendant)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)
Hermann Göring
German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
- Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
- Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
- Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)
Date: 22 March 1942
Literal Title: Manpower (Arbeitseinsatz) . . . The Plenipotentiary General (Der Generalbevollmaechtigte) for Manpower. Appointment of the Plenipotentiary General for Manpower
Defendants: Fritz Sauckel, Baldur Schirach, von
Total Pages: 4
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-3352
Citations: IMT (page 2769), IMT (page 2778)
HLSL Item No.: 453092
Notes:Schirach was the gau leader for Vienna during the war.