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The Reich Ministry of Justice (German: Reichsjustizministerium) was a Ministry of Germany during the Weimar Republic and subsequently the Nazi period. It was the successor of the Reichsjustizamt . It was abolished in 1945 , when the Allied forces took over the administration of Germany at the end of World War II .
Franz Gürtner (26 August 1881 – 29 January 1941) was a German Minister of Justice in the governments of Franz von Papen, Kurt von Schleicher and Adolf Hitler.Gürtner was responsible for coordinating jurisprudence in Nazi Germany and provided official sanction and legal grounds for a series of repressive actions under the Nazi regime from 1933 until his death in 1941.
May 1939: Arthur Seyss-Inquart enters the Cabinet as a Reich Minister (without portfolio). March 1940: Fritz Todt enters the Cabinet as Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions. January 1941: Franz Schlegelberger succeeds Gürtner as Acting Reich Minister of Justice. February 1941: Dorpmüller, Reich Minister of Transport, joins the Nazi Party.
Franz Schlegelberger – Jurist and State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (1931–1941) he became Acting Reich Minister of Justice (1941–1942). Fritz Schlessmann – Police President, Deputy Gauleiter and Acting Gauleiter of Gau Essen. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
On 20 August 1942, Hitler promoted Otto Georg Thierack to Reich Justice Minister, replacing the retiring Schlegelberger, and named Freisler to succeed Thierack as president of the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof). This court had jurisdiction over a broad array of political offences, including black marketeering, work slowdowns and defeatism.
On 24 August 1942, Thierack assumed the office of Reich Minister of Justice. He introduced the monthly Richterbriefe in October 1942, in which were presented model – from the Nazi leaders' standpoint – decisions, with names left out, upon which German jurisprudence was to be based.
On 10 October 1931 Schlegelberger was appointed State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice under Justice Minister Franz Gürtner and kept this job until Gürtner's death in 1941. He was also made a member of the Academy for German Law and was the chairman of its Committee for Water Rights. [1]
Reich Ministry of Justice; Reichsminister; Reichsministerium des Innern; Ministry of the Reichswehr; S. Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture; T.