Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

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German federal statute Nazi law anti-Jewish legislation discriminatory employment law

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.

Aliases (1)

Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums ×1

Statements (63)

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 → 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 →

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service → GermanTitle → Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service →

this entity surface form: "Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums"

NaziRacialPolicy → implementedThroughLaw → Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service →

Gleichschaltung → legalInstrument → 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 →