Enabling Act of 1933

Enabling Act of 1933
Hitler's Reichstag speech promoting the bill; Because of the Reichstag fire, the meeting was held at the Kroll Opera House
Reichstag
  • Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich
CitationRGBl. I S. 141
Territorial extent Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
Enacted byReichstag
Enacted byReichsrat
Signed byPresident Paul von Hindenburg
Signed23 March 1933
Commenced23 March 1933
Repealed20 September 1945
Legislative history
First chamber: Reichstag
Introduced byHitler cabinet
Passed23 March 1933
Voting summary
  • 444 voted for
  • 94 voted against
  • 109 absent
Second chamber: Reichsrat
Passed23 March 1933
Voting summary
  • 66 voted for
  • None voted against
Repealed by
Control Council Law No. 1 - Repealing of Nazi Laws
Status: Repealed

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, Adolf Hitler—the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg. By allowing the Chancellor to override the checks and balances in the constitution, the Enabling Act was a pivotal step in the transition from the democratic Weimar Republic to the totalitarian dictatorship of Nazi Germany.

  1. ^ Rabinbach, Anson; Gilman, Sander L. (2013). The Third Reich Sourcebook. University of California Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0520276833.

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