Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
Nazi Germany enacts the Professional Civil Service Law
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7 April 1933, in Berlin
The Reich government enacted and promulgated the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service on 7 April 1933. Hitler, Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick and Finance Minister Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk signed it.
It reached the Reich, state, municipal, public-corporation and equivalent civil services, and authorized dismissals even when existing law supplied no grounds.
Articles 3 and 4
Article 3 ordered the retirement of civil servants classed as “non-Aryan.” Article 4 authorized dismissal of officials whose political conduct supposedly did not guarantee unconditional support for the Nazi state.
The original text carried exemptions that Hindenburg had insisted on: officials appointed by 1 August 1914, First World War front-line veterans, and people whose father or son had died in the war.
How it was actually applied
The statute did not dismiss every Jewish official at a stroke. An implementing regulation of 11 April defined “non-Aryan” ancestry through Jewish parents or grandparents and required affected officials to document their ancestry or an exemption.
In Prussia's justice administration, 420 of 6,560 officials were removed under Articles 3, 4 and 6 — 128 classified as Jewish, 100 as politically unreliable, and 192 for administrative simplification.
Sources
- Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service — primary-source translation
- USHMM: Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
- Yale Avalon Project: First Regulation for Administration of the Law, 11 April 1933
- German Research Foundation: How research and funding were “Aryanised”
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- Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service—primary-source translation
- USHMM: Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
- Yale Avalon Project: First Regulation for Administration of the Law, April 11, 1933
- USHMM: The Enabling Act of 1933
- German Research Foundation: How research and funding were “Aryanised”