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Commission giving the Gestapo jurisdiction over the work of the political police

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Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

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  • Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
  • Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
  • Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
  • Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
  • Member of: Sturmabteilung
  • Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
  • Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)

Date: 20 September 1936

Literal Title: Ministerialblatt d. Reichs u. Preuss. Minist. D. Innern 1936 . . . Commissioning of the Secret State Police Bureau with the Supervision of the Duties of the Political Police Commander of the Provinces

Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: L-297

Citation: IMT (page 1893)

HLSL Item No.: 451549

Notes:Goering is identified by his office, Prussian minister of the interior. This document was entered as "miscellaneous" evidence, for judicial notice, without an exhibit number.

Trial Issues

Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SA, SD, OK… Administration & organization (all cases)

Document Summary

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L-297: Giving Secret State Police Bureau supervision over political police commanders of provinces

Giving Secret State Police Bureau supervision over political police commanders of provinces

Blue Series Subject Index

L-297: GESTAPO -- Organizational structure -- Secret State Police Bureau, "Ministerialblatt der Inneren Verwaltung Preussens," 1933, p. 503 -- activities, Reichsministerialblatt 1936, p. 1343

1936 REICHS MINISTERIALBLATT PAGE 1343
Commissioning of the Secret State Police Bureau with the Supervision of the Duties of the Political Police Commander of the Provinces.
Circular of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior for 20.9.1936—Police Security Administration.
I commission the Secret State Police Bureau with the supervision of the duties of the Political Police-Commander of the Provinces.
To the Secret State Police Bureau, Berlin, all State Police head-offices and offices in the Reich. Notification to the Prussian Minister-President, the Provincial governments outside Prussia, the central office of the Uniformed Police, the Criminal Police office for the Province of Prussia in Berlin, the Prussian Ober- and Regierungs-Praesident.

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