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The Enabling Act of 1933 (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz), officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich (lit. ' Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich ' ), [ 1 ] was a law that gave the German Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or ...
The enabling act on 24 February 1923, originally limited until 1 June but extended until 31 October, empowered the cabinet to resist the occupation of the Ruhr. [3] There was an enabling act on 13 October 1923 and an enabling act on 8 December 1923 that would last until the dissolution of the Reichstag on 13 March 1924. [4]
Mar 24, 1933 Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich: Commonly known as the Enabling Act, the law ended democracy in Germany. It gave the government the power to govern legislation by decree. It gave them the legal right to make discriminatory policies in the future.
The Enabling Act came into effect one day later. [1] The speech resembled a programmatic government declaration, encapsulating key elements of Nazi policy. Adolf Hitler's Speech on the Enabling Act (March 23, 1933).
On 23 March 1933, the Enabling Act, an amendment to the Weimar Constitution, passed in the Reichstag by a vote of 444 to 94. [23] This amendment allowed Hitler and his cabinet to pass laws—even laws that violated the constitution—without the consent of the president or the Reichstag. [24]
Hitler's Reichstag speech promoting the Enabling Act, which Wels countered, was delivered at the Kroll Opera House as a result of the Reichstag fire. Wels had underestimated Adolf Hitler and was taken by surprise when President Paul von Hindenburg named him chancellor on 30 January 1933. The SPD saw the move as constitutional and called on its ...
24 March: Enabling Act, passed with help of Catholic Center Party, effectively hands the legislative powers of the Reichstag over to the Chancellor for a period of four years. Act permits Chancellor and cabinet to issue laws without a vote of Parliament and to deviate from the Constitution. Process of Gleichschaltung begins.
The Enabling Act of 1933 published as RGBl. 1933 I p. 141 The Reichsgesetzblatt continued to be used in Nazi Germany (1933–1945). The Enabling Act of 1933 , for example, provided in its Article 3 that all laws enacted by the government – and not only those passed by the legislature (the Reichstag ) – were to be published in the ...