Reich Labour Ministry

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The Reich Labour Ministry was a central government department in Nazi Germany responsible for overseeing labor policy, employment regulation, and workforce mobilization within the Third Reich’s economic system.


Statements (45)
Predicate Object
instanceOf central government department
government ministry
labour ministry
associatedWith state-directed labour deployment
total war economy of the Third Reich
country Germany
dissolvedAfter defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945
governmentType authoritarian ministry
historicalContext Nazi dictatorship
World War II
historicalRole central organ of labour administration in Nazi Germany
ideology Nazism
implementedPolicyOf coordination (Gleichschaltung) of labour organizations
integration of labour into the Nazi command economy
state control of labour
jurisdiction German Reich
legalStatus Reich ministry
locatedIn Berlin
oversaw employment exchanges
labour deployment for armaments industry
labour deployment for war economy
labour offices in the Reich
partOf administrative structure of the Third Reich
politicalAlignment National Socialist German Workers' Party
replacedBy Federal Ministry of Labour (West Germany)
labour administration of Allied occupation authorities
responsibleFor allocation of labour
coordination of labour with war economy
employment regulation
industrial relations policy
labour law enforcement
labour market regulation
labour policy
regulation of wages and hours
regulation of working conditions
workforce mobilization
scope entire territory of the German Reich
sphereOfActivity economic planning
labour and social policy
war-related labour mobilization
state Nazi Germany
subordinateTo Government of Nazi Germany
Reich government
timePeriod Third Reich
usedLanguage German

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Reich Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan ("Reich Ministry of Labor (in practice)")
authorityOver
Third Reich economic bureaucracy
includesAgency

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