Provisional Law and Second Law on the Coordination of the States with the Reich

First Law on the Coordination of the States with the Reich
Reichsadler of the Weimar Republic, from 1933 to 1935
Government of the German Reich
Long title Provisional Law on the Coordination of the States with the Reich
Enacted by	Government of the German Reich
Enacted	31 March 1933
Signed by	Adolf Hitler Wilhelm Frick
Signed	31 March 1933
Effective	31 March 1933
Repealed	20 September 1945
Repealed by
Control Council Law No. 1 - Repealing of Nazi Laws
Status: Repealed

Second Law on the Coordination of the States with the Reich
Reichsadler of the Weimar Republic, from 1933 to 1935
Government of the German Reich
Enacted by	Government of the German Reich
Enacted	7 April 1933
Signed by	Adolf Hitler Wilhelm Frick
Signed	7 April 1933
Effective	7 April 1933
Repealed	20 September 1945
Repealed by
Control Council Law No. 1 - Repealing of Nazi Laws
Status: Repealed

The Provisional Law and Second Law on the Coordination of the States with the Reich (German: Vorläufiges Gesetz und Zweites Gesetz zur Gleichschaltung der Länder mit dem Reich) were two laws enacted by the German government of Adolf Hitler to expand its control over the seventeen German states (länder). The Provisional (First) Law (31 March 1933) dissolved all the sitting landtage (state parliaments), except for that of Prussia, and reconstituted them in accordance with the results of the recent parliamentary election of 5 March 1933, which had given the Nazi Party and its coalition partner, the German National People's Party (DNVP), a majority of the Reichstag seats. The Second Law (7 April 1933) established the new powerful position of Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) appointed by the central government to effectively take control of each state administration. The effect of these laws was to undermine the power and influence of all political parties other than the Nazis and the DNVP, and to move Germany significantly away from being a federal republic and put it on a path to becoming a unitary state.