Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

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The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was a 1933 Nazi statute that purged Jews and political opponents from Germany’s civil service, marking an early legal step in the regime’s systematic persecution and exclusion policies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German federal statute
Nazi law
anti-Jewish legislation
discriminatory employment law
aimedAt civil servants in Germany
appliesTo judges
other state employees
police officials
professional civil service
prosecutors
public officials
teachers in state schools and universities
classifiedAs instrument of state-sponsored discrimination
tool of political repression
containsProvision Aryan paragraph
removal of officials on political grounds
removal of officials on racial grounds
requirement of political reliability
country Germany
dateOfEffect 1933-04-07
dateOfEnactment 1933-04-07
effect Nazification of the German civil service
exclusion of Jews from state employment
marginalization of political dissidents
mass dismissal of Jewish teachers and professors
removal of Jewish judges from the bench
enactedBy Nazi Germany
surface form: Nazi government

Reich government
surface form: Reich government of Adolf Hitler
exemptedGroup Jewish World War I front-line veterans
civil servants employed since before World War I
close relatives of fallen World War I soldiers
followedBy NurembergLaws
surface form: Nuremberg Laws

further anti-Jewish professional bans
GermanTitle Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service self-linksurface differs
surface form: Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums
historicalContext early phase of Nazi consolidation of power
early step in legal persecution of Jews in Germany
historicalPeriod Nazi era
implementedBy Ministry of the Interior of Nazi Germany
surface form: Reich Interior Ministry

regional and local civil service authorities
introducedConcept non-Aryan definition in German law
jurisdiction Nazi Germany
legalBasisFor dismissal of Jewish civil servants
dismissal of politically unreliable civil servants
forced retirement of civil servants
revocation of tenure for targeted officials
legalForm Reich law
originalLanguage German
partOf Gleichschaltung
surface form: Nazi Gleichschaltung policies

Nazi persecution of Jews
policyType anti-Semitic policy
purge of public administration
racial policy
precededBy Nazi seizure of power
surface form: Nazi seizure of power in 1933
promulgatedBy Paul von Hindenburg
shortDescription 1933 Nazi law purging Jews and political opponents from the German civil service
signedBy Adolf Hitler
subjectOf historical research on Holocaust origins
studies of Nazi legal system
targetedGroup Jews
members of the Communist Party of Germany
members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
other opponents of National Socialism
political opponents

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NaziRacialPolicy implementedThroughLaw Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
Ministry of the Interior of Nazi Germany notableLaw Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
Gleichschaltung legalInstrument Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service GermanTitle Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums
Nazification of the German legal system keyEvent Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service