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Both laws contradicted Article 2 of the Enabling Act, which stated that laws passed under the Enabling Act must "not affect" the Reichsrat. In August 1934, President Hindenburg died, and Hitler seized the president's powers for himself in accordance with the Law Concerning the Head of State of the German Reich, passed the previous day.
A chart depicting the Nuremberg Laws that were enacted in 1935. From 1933 to 1945, the Nazi regime ruled Germany and, at times, controlled most all of Europe. During this time, Nazi Germany shifted from the post-World War I society which characterized the Weimar Republic and introduced an ideology of "biological racism" into the country's legal and justicial systems. [1]
The German word Ermächtigungsgesetz usually refers to the Enabling Act of 1933, officially Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich ("Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the State"). It became a cornerstone of Adolf Hitler's seizure of power. Unlike, for example, Wilhelm Marx's enabling act of December 1923, Hitler's Act:
Hitler agreed to these amendments and the bill was signed into law on 7 April 1933. [5] In practice, the amendments excluded most Jewish civil servants; after Hindenburg's death in 1934, the amendments were superseded completely by the Nuremberg Laws .
The Law Against the Formation of Parties (German: Gesetz gegen die Neubildung von Parteien), sometimes translated as the Law Against the Founding of New Parties, was a measure enacted by the government of Nazi Germany on 14 July 1933 that established the Nazi Party (NSDAP) as the only legal political party in Germany.
Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring (German: Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses) or "Sterilisation Law" was a statute in Nazi Germany enacted on July 14, 1933, (and made active in January 1934) [1] which allowed the compulsory sterilisation of any citizen who in the opinion of a "Genetic Health Court ...
The Law to Secure the Unity of Party and State (German: Gesetz zur Sicherung der Einheit von Partei und Staat), sometimes translated as the Law to Safeguard the Unity of Party and State, was a statute enacted by the government of Nazi Germany on 1 December 1933 that established a close interconnection between the Nazi Party (including its paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung, or SA) and the ...
On 18 May 1933, the Landtag of Prussia met for the last time and passed an "enabling act" that conferred emergency legislative powers on the Göring administration for a period of four years. [19] On 30 January 1934, the Reichstag passed the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich."