Extract from the NSDAP yearbook, on the office of the Party Chancellery, including its jurisdiction and powers in the party and government

NATIONAL SOCIALIST YEARBOOK 1944 Pages 181-182
THE REICH OFFICES OF THE N.S.D.A.P.
The Party Chancery Reichsleiter Martin Bormann
Office for Internal Party Affairs [Sachbearbeiter fuer innere Parteiangelegenheiten]
Office for Constitutional Questions [Sachbearbeiter fuer staatsrechtliche Fragen]
Special Delegate attached to the Party Chancery [Sonderbeauftragter bei der Partei-Kanzlei] .
Main Archives of the NSDAP [Hauptarchiv der NSDAP]
The Head of the Foreign Organization of the NSDAP [Der Leiter der Auslands-Organisation]
The Delegate of the NSDAP for all "Folkdom" Questions [Der Beauftragte der NSDAP fuer alle Volkstumsfragen]
The Delegate for the Reconstruction of the Reich [Der Beauftragte fuer den Neubau des Reiches]
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The Delegate for all Questions of Technology and its Organizations [Der Beauftragte fuer alle Fragen der Technik und ihre Organisationen] '
The Delegate for all Questions of Public Health [Der Sachbearbeiter fuer alle Fragen der Volksgesundheit]
The Head of the Race Policy Office of the NSDAP [Der Leiter des Rassenpolitischen Amtes der NSDAP]
The Head of the Office for Genealogy [Der Leiter des Amtes fuer Sippenforschung]
The Delegate for Questions of Financial and Tax Policy [Der Beauftragte fuer Fragen der Finanz-und Steuerpolitik]
Reich Camp of the NSDAP, Bad Toelz [Reichslager der NSDAP, Bad Toelz]
Reich School of the NSDAP, Feldafing [Reichsschule der NSDAP, Feldafing]
PARTY CHANCERY
The Party Chancery is the Office of the Fuehrer in his capacity as Head of the NSDAP. The Head of this Office, directly responsible to the Fuehrer, is Reichsleiter Martin Bormann. He centralizes for the Fuehrer the treatment of all basic planning and suggestions from the Party sphere. Through him, the directives established by Hitler himself or prepared on his behalf for the entire Party go to the respective offices for execution. The entire work which arises from the political leadership assignment of the Party and from its directive-relationship to the State, is centralized in the Party Chancery.
All internal Party planning, all questions of political leadership of vital interest to the Nation, the basic recommendations of the Reichsleiters, Gauleiters, and leaders of Formations (SS, SA, etc.) are examined by the Head of the Party Chancery on behalf of the Fuehrer and are brought in accord with over-all political requirements. The Party Chancery is responsible for carrying out the manifold tasks of the NSDAP in the direction of the people. The Party directs the various activities of the Party offices in the total war effort at home and the Party work in the incorporated and occupied territories. The Party Chancery also has the responsibility of dealing with all questions of common concern to the Party and the Wehrmacht. .
Within the jurisdiction of the Party Chancery is also the centralized handling of all question^ concerned with securing the unity of Party and State. Through the decree of the Fuehrer of 29 May 1941, the Head of the Party Chancery has the authority of a Reich Minister and is a member of the Reich Cabi-
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net. He alone represents the Party in its relations with the Supreme Reich authorities. The following individual powers have been conferred on him:
1. The Head of the Party Chancery is to be consulted from the outset by the Supreme Reich Authorities about drafts of Reich laws, decrees, and executive orders of the Fuehrer, decrees of the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich, as well as decrees of the Supreme Reich authorities, including ordinances and regulations issued thereunder. The same applies to approval of laws and decrees of the States [Laender] and of decrees of state governors [Reichsstatthalter]. Through this procedure the Head of the Party Chancery imposes the view of the Party as guardian of the National Socialist philosophy. Recommendations and suggestions for legislation from the Party, its formations, and affiliated organizations, are transmitted to the appropriate Supreme Reich Authorities only through the Head of the Party Chancery.
2. The Head of the Party Chancery passes on the appointment and promotion of officials and Labor Service leaders, insofar as this prerogative is not already exercised by the Gauleiter. This assures that State personnel policy is determined in accordance with the National Socialist philosophy.
3. In all other fundamental and political questions communications between the Supreme Reich Authorities and supreme authorities of the States [Laender] on the one hand, and the Party on the other, pass through the Head of the Party Chancery exclusively. This assures that the Party, its formations, and affiliated organizations will take a uniform position in all fields of government activity.
4. The Head of the Party Chancery has various powers to secure the influence of the Party in the sphere of local self-government.
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