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The proposed law was then introduced, advanced through three readings in under five minutes by Reichstag President Hermann Göring and adopted without any debate or dissenting votes. It was a travesty of parliamentary procedure that was accompanied by derisive laughter from the over 600 brown-shirted Nazi Reichstag deputies.
The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany of May 1949 created the office of Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland). Since German reunification in 1990, the President has been the head of state for all of Germany.
The Reichstag only met 12 times between 1933 and 1939, and enacted only four laws — the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" of 1934 (which turned Germany into a highly centralized state) and the three "Nuremberg Laws" of 1935. All passed unanimously. It would only meet eight more times after the start of the war.
Presidents of Germany; List of German presidents since 1919; List of German monarchs. List of state leaders in the 19th century (1851–1900) List of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950) List of German monarchs in 1918
The acts standardised court types and procedural rules across the newly formed German Empire and established judicial independence and unrestricted access to the courts. [1] The court's jurisdiction included both criminal and civil cases. It handled appeals, charges of treason and, after 1920, the compatibility of state and national laws.
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Prichett, Morgan H. German immigrants to Baltimore : the passenger list of 1854, Baltimore, Md. : Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, 1982. Vill, Martha J. Land tenure, property ownership and home mortgages in the late nineteenth century : a case study of Baltimore's Germans, 1976.
The law also specifically prohibited motions of no confidence by the state parliaments against the minister-presidents or other members of the state governments. The Second Law also specifically conferred the executive authority in Prussia as Reichsstatthalter directly on the Reich Chancellor, namely, Hitler.