1938 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 631
Decree for the registration for the active service in Austria in the year 1938 of 16 June 1938
I. The registration for the active service in the army for the year 1938 in the country of Austria will be conducted during the time from 16 August until 10 September 1938.
II. To be called for registration:
1. All those subject to duty, born in the year 1917, without regard to their physical fitness and regardless whether they were exempt from induction in spring of the year 1938;
2. All those volunteers of other years of birth who were considered "general service";
3. All those subject to duty considered "general service" or "limited service" at the time of induction of the class of 1915 and 1916 who have registered with reserve commands and who have as yet not been trained;
4. The volunteers who have reported, or want to report, in June 1938, for induction into active service for the fall of 1938 (for the Luftwaffe also for the spring of 1939), without regard whether or not they have been physically examined.
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III. Charged with this task are— in the higher administrative echelons:
The Landeshauptmaenner (governors of provinces); in Vienna the mayor, in the district police echelons:
in the cities, the mayor, and the State police officer, as far as they are on hand, in Vienna the Chief of Police, in the rural districts the district governors.
IV. This decree is based upon Article 37, Section 2 of the draft law dated 21 May 1935 (Reichsgesetzbl. I, page 609) and the decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor regarding the transfer (carrying over) of the institutional law according to the draft law dated 22 May 1935 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, page 615) and the decree on the introduction of the general draft in the country of Austria dated 15 June 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, page 631). Berlin, 16 June 1938
The Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces
Keitel
The Reich Minister of the Interior
Frick
Decree to register Austrians born in 1917, and others who have volunteered, for service in the army
Authors
Wilhelm Keitel (Field Marshal, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces)
Wilhelm Keitel
German field marshal
- Born: 1882-09-22 (Helmscherode) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Duchy of Brunswick)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) (country: Allied-occupied Germany)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Military rank: general field marshal
- Military branch: artillery
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/74027425
Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior; chief of Nazi delegation, Reichstag; admin. Plenipotentiary)
Wilhelm Frick
German Nazi official (1877-1946)
- Born: 1877-03-12 (Alsenz)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German Völkisch Freedom Party; National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: AGV München; Thule Society
- Participant in: Aryanization; Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Position held: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (period: 1943-08-24 through 1945-05-04; replaces: Konstantin von Neurath); Reichsminister des Innern (period: 1933-01-30 through 1943-08-20; replaced by: Heinrich Himmler; replaces: Franz Bracht); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Date: 16 June 1938
Literal Title: 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt . . . Decree for the Registration for the Active Service in Austria in the year 1938 of 16 June 1938
Defendants: Wilhelm Frick, Wilhelm Keitel, 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-1660
HLSL Item No.: 453220
Notes:A copy of PS 1660 was entered for judicial notice on 29 November 1945; this copy was apparently not entered in the case against Seyss-Inquart.
Trial Issue
Document Summary
PS-1660: 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, part I, page 634: decree regarding registration for active military service in Austria during 1938
PS-1660: Decree of 16 June 1938 RGBl, 1938, I, p 631) signed by Koitel and Frick, concerning conscription of Austrians into the German Army.