1933 PREUSSISCHE GESETZSAMMLUNG, PAGE 413 Law on the Secret State Police of November 30, 1933
The State Ministry has resolved the following law:
Article 1
(1) The Secret State Police is an independent branch of the Administration of the Interior. The Prime Minister is its chief. He appoints an Inspector of the Secret State Police as acting manager of the affairs.
(2) In case of absence, the State Secretary of the State Ministry acts as deputy of the Prime Minister in his capacity as Chief of the Secret State Police.
(3) The Inspector of the Secret State Police is also chief of the Secret State Office.
Article 2
The jurisdiction of the Secret State Police covers all political police matters of the general and interior administration. The Prime Minister as Chief of the Secret State Police, will issue the regulations regarding the matters which must be transferred to the Secret State Police.
Article 3
(1) With the enactment of this law the Secret State Police Office takes over matters of a political nature which were previously handled by the Ministry of the Interior.
(2) The district, county and local police authorities [Landes Kreis und Ortspolizeibehoerden] are subject to the directives of the Secret State Police Office.
Article 4
The Minister of Finance is empowered to make changes in the budget of the State in order to carry out this law.
Article 5
Provisions of the law of April 26, 1933 (Gesetzsammlung 1933, p. 122) which conflict with this law are superseded by this law.
Article 6
This law goes into effect with its promulgation.
Berlin, November 30, 1933
The Prussian State Ministry,
/ss/ Goering Popitz. and as Minister of Interior
731
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The above law, as resolved by the Prussian State Ministry, is herewith promulgated.
For the Reich Chancellor:
For the Prussian Prime Minister
Goering
Law on the organization and jurisdiction (all political police matters) of the Secret State Police (Gestapo)
Authors
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)
Johannes Popitz (Prof. Dr., Prussian ministries (1933-36))
Johannes Popitz
Prussian politician (1884-1945)
- Born: 1884-12-02 (Leipzig)
- Died: 1945-02-02 (Plötzensee Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: economist; jurist; politician; resistance fighter
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: German Archaeological Institute
- Position held: minister
- Employer: Humboldt University of Berlin
Date: 30 November 1933
Literal Title: 1933 Preussiche Gestzsammlung . . . Law on the Secret State Police of November 30, 1933
Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
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-2105
Citation: IMT (page 1891)
HLSL Item No.: 451598
Notes:This document was entered for judicial notice without an exhibit number. For a follow-up decree of March 1934, see document PS 2113.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Administration & organization (all cases)
Document Summary
PS-2105: Prussian law, 30 November 1933, concerning the duties of the secret state police