Chapter VII: Termination of Official Relationship

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2. Dismissal from Office

(a) Refusal to take the oath

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ARTICLE 57.

Whoever refuses to take the oath of allegiance prescribed by law is to be dismissed.

3. Retirement

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(d) Political Reasons

(1) The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor may retire a life-time or temporary official on the request of the supreme office authority in agreement with the Reich Minister of the Interior, if the official no longer offers guarantee that he will at all times support the National Socialist State.

(2) The facts justifying this request are to be ascertained in an investigation in which the questioning of witnesses and excerpts on oath is permissible and in which the official is to be heard.

Berlin, 26 Jan. 1937

The Fuehrer and Reichs Chancellor
Adolf Hitler

The Reichs Minister of the Interior
Frick

The Reich Minister of Finance
Count Schwerin von Krosigk

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1939 REICHSGESETZBLATT, No. 38, 2 MARCH 1939, PAGE 371

Decree on the education and careers of German officials of 28 February
1939

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Par. 2.

The applicants must belong or have belonged to the party or one of its formations. In the selection the personal aptitude and character are decisive. Honorably discharged workers and soldiers (cf. par. 16 (1) and par. 17 of the decree on the care for soldiers and workers in the form of 29 Dec 1937--RGBl I, p. 1417) and children of child-rich families have preference. For pension applicants the special decrees apply.

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1936 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 369

Law on the People’s Court and on the 25th amendment to the Salary Law
of 18 April 1936

The Reich Cabinet [Reichsregierung] has passed the following law which is hereby promulgated: