1935 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 851
First ordinance for execution of the law concerning procedure for decisions in legal affairs of the Protestant Church of 3 July 1935
On the basis of Para. 4 of the law concerning procedure for decisions in legal affairs of the Protestant church of 26 June 1935 (Reichsgesetzbl. 1, page 774) it is hereby ordained:
Para. 1
(1) The Office for Decisions in legal matters of the Protestant church makes decisions in a sitting of three members. The president and the associates must possess qualifications for the judgeship or for higher administrative service posts.
(2) The Reich Minister of the Interior appoints the members, including the president, and their alternates.
Para. 2
Following deferment of the case of court officially forwards the documents to the Office for Decisions in the Reich Ministry of the Interior.
Para. 3
(1) The Office for Decisions shall give to the parties in the lawsuit as well as to the State Churches which are involved and to the German Protestant Church an opportunity to be heard. It can disregard this if it leaves the decision to the court (Par. 3 of the law). It can order oral proceedings to which the parties are summoned. The parties may allow themselves to be represented by lawyers at the proceedings before the Office for Decisions.
(2) The Office for Decisions may on its own authority conduct further inquiries, particularly the interrogation under oath of witnesses and experts, to supplement the documents laid before it.
(3) The provisions.of the rules for civil lawsuits apply, according to their sense, in the summoning of the parties and the production of evidence. The courts as well as the administrative offices of the Reich and the States are required to provide legal and official aid to the Office for Decisions.
(4) The Office for Decisions can request information and opinion from the highest state officials.
Para. 4
Fees will not be collected for the activity of the Office for Decisions. Witnesses and experts are entitled to recompensation rates established by the rules applying to the lawsuit. Other than
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that payments are not authorized. Costs arise from the proceedings before the Office for Decisions do not belong to the costs of the lawsuit.
Berlin, 3 July 1935.
The Reich Minister of the Interior
Frick
Ordinance on the application of the law on the procedure for the legal affairs of the German Evangelical Church, supervised by an office in the Ministry of the Interior
Authors
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: 03 July 1935
Literal Title: First ordinance for execution of the law concerning procedure for decisions in legal affairs of the Evangelical Church. of 3 July 1934 [i.e., 1935]
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-3435
Citation: IMT (page 2248)
HLSL Item No.: 450484
Notes:For the law on which the ordinance is based, see document PS 3434. The date "1934" in the title is an error for 1935. This document was entered for judicial notice without an exhibit number.