1933 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 161
Law concerning Factory Representative Councils and Economic Organizations of 4 April 1933
The Reich Cabinet has decided the following law which is hereby made public:
Chapter I
Factory Representative Councils
Article 1 '
1. The Highest Authority of the Federal State can postpone the elections for the Legal Factory Representative Council for the Federal State, parts of the Federal State or for individual
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enterprises until 30 September of this year at the latest for reasons of public safety and order.
2. The Factory Representative Council existing- up to date remains in office in the case of postponement of the elections. Filling- of vacancies in Factory Representative Councils caused by dismissal of members is only necessary if the number of its members has fallen below half of the legal number of members or if they number less than three. The new members of the Factory Representative Council required for its minimum strength will be nominated from the eligible workers by the highest authority of the Federal State or the authority appointed by it.
Article 2
The highest authority of the Federal State can cancel the membership of members who have been appointed contrary to the spirit of State and economy [die in Staats- oder Wirtschaftsfeindlichem Sinne eingestellt sind.] It can appoint new members for the Factory Representative Councils from the eligible workers to replace the eliminated members. .
Article 3
The afore-mentioned regulations will be applied accordingly to the "United Factory Councils", created according to Article 50 of the Factory Council Law and to the "Special Representations" formed according to Articles 61 and 62. Article 93 of the Factory Council Law will not be applicable in the case of disputes concerning the execution of the above-mentioned regulations.
Article 4
The competent highest Reich authorities will be appointed to exercise the powers for the highest authority of the Federal State contained in Chapter I, in the case of the administrations and enterprises of the Reich, including the German Railroad Company and the Reichsbank.
Article 5
The regulations contained in Article 1, para. 2 and Article 2, 2nd sentence are also applicable to measures taken before the effectiveness of this law.
Chapter II
Dismissal of Workers
The right to oppose dismissal of a worker contained in Article 84 of the Factory Council Law is not applicable if the dismissed is suspected of an unfriendly attitude towards the State. The worker can appeal within a week to the authority declared com-
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petent according to Chapter I, Article 2. That authority decides, after hearing all those concerned, whether the suspicions are justified or not. The dismissal is cancelled if its findings are negative.
Chapter III
Representation of Economic Organizations within the Miners
Insurance
Article 1
Article 184, Article 157, sentences 2 and 3 and Article 180, part 3 of the Reich Mining Law are hereby revoked.
Article 2 .
The Reich Labor Minister can charge members of the insurance or mine supervision authorities, as commissioners with the tasks of the instances which are in office at the time; the commissioners are under the authority of the Reich Labor Minister.
Chapter IV
Legal Representation before the Labor Court
The following part 3 is added to Article 11 of the Labor Court Law:
The Reich Labor Minister can, in agreement with the Reich Economy Minister and the Reich Minister of Justice, put other organizations on the same level for legal representation as the organizations named in parts 1 and 2.
Chapter V
Directives of Execution
The Reich Labor Minister has the power to issue legal decrees and general administrative directives in order to insure the execution of the Regulations of this Law; he is authorized to change regulations of the Reich Mining Law in order to adapt them to the decrees of Chapter III of this Law.
Berlin, 4 April 1933
The Reich Chancellor
Adolf Hitler
The Reich Labor Minister
Franz Seldte
The Reich Minister of the Interior
Frick
For the Reich Minister of Justice
The Reich Minister of Finance Count Schwerin von Krosigk The Reich Minister of Economy
Hugenberg
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Law postponing the election of new factory councils, and authorizing the removal of council members "contrary to the spirit of State and economy" and the dismissal of workers with "an unfriendly attitude towards the State"
Authors
Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)
Adolf Hitler
Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)
- Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
- Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
- Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
- Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
- Member of: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
- Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin
Franz Seldte (Reich Minister of Labor)
Franz Seldte
German politician (1882-1947)
- Born: 1882-06-29 (Magdeburg)
- Died: 1947-04-01 (Fürth)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician
- Member of political party: German National People's Party; Nazi Party
- Member of: Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten
- Military rank: major
- Military branch: Imperial German Army
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
Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk (Graf; Reich Minister of Finance)
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
German nobleman, jurist, and senior Nazi government official (1887-1977)
- Born: 1887-08-22 (Rathmannsdorf)
- Died: 1977-04-03 1977-03-04 (Essen)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Germany; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: diplomat; economist; jurist; military personnel
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1937-01-30)
- Participant in: Aryanization; Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-02-06; role: affiant)
- Significant person: Karl Brandt (role: acquaintance)
- Position held: Chancellor of Germany (period: 1945-05-01 through 1945-05-23; replaced by: Konrad Adenauer; replaces: Joseph Goebbels); Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (period: 1945-05-02 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Arthur Seyss-Inquart); German Foreign Minister (period: 1945-05-02 through 1945-05-23; replaced by: Georg Dertinger; replaces: Arthur Seyss-Inquart); Leading Minister (period: 1945-05-01 through 1945-05-23)
Alfred Hugenberg (Minister for Food and Agriculture (1933))
Alfred Hugenberg
German politician (1865-1951)
- Born: 1865-06-19 (Hanover)
- Died: 1951-03-12 (Kükenbruch)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; financier; media proprietor; politician
- Member of political party: German Fatherland Party; German National People's Party
- Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
- Educated at: Heidelberg University; Humboldt University of Berlin; University of Göttingen; University of Strasbourg
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/72185793
Date: 04 April 1933
Literal Title: 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt . . . Law concerning Factory Representative Councils and Economic Organizations of 4 April 1933
Defendant: Wilhelm Frick
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-1770
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450387
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
PS-1770: 4 April 1933, Law enacted by Reich government concerning Factory Representative Councils and Economic Organizations. Signed by SCHWERIN von KROSIGK, together with Hitler, Frick and others.
Law of 4 April 1933 (RGBl,1933,I, p.161) concerning Factory Representative Councils and Economic Organizations, signed by, among others, SCHWERIN-KROSIGK.