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On the basis of the regulation for the implementation of the Four-Year Plan of 18 October 1936 (Reichsgesetzblatt, I, p. 887), the following is decreed:
§ 1
1. From 1 January 1939, Jews (§ 5 of the First
Regulation of the Reich Citizenship Law of 14 November 1935,
Reichsgesetzblatt, I, p. 1333)
are forbidden to operate retail stores, mail-order houses, or sales
agencies, or to carry on a trade [craft] independently.
2. They
are further forbidden, from the same day on, to offer for sale goods
or services, to advertise these, or to accept orders at markets of
all sorts, fairs or exhibitions.
3. Jewish trade enterprises
(Third Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law of 14 June
1938—Reichsgesetzblatt, I, p.
627) which violate this decree will be closed by police.
§2
1. From 1 January 1939, a Jew can no longer be the head
of an enterprise within the meaning of the Law of 20 January 1934,
for the Regulation of National Work
(Reichsgesetzblatt, I, p.
45).
2. Where a Jew is employed in an executive position in a
commercial enterprise he may be given notice to leave in six weeks.
At the expiration of the term of the notice all claims of the
employee based on his contract, especially those concerning pension
and compensation rights, become invalid.
§3
1. A Jew cannot be a member of a cooperative.
2. The
membership of Jews in cooperatives expires on 31 December 1938. No
special notice is required.
§4
The Reich Minister of the Economy, in coordination with
the Ministers concerned, is empowered to publish regulations for the
implementation of this decree. He may permit exceptions under the
Law if these are required as the result of the transfer of a Jewish
enterprise to non-Jewish ownership, for the liquidation of a Jewish
enterprise or, in special cases, to ensure essential supplies.
Berlin, 12 November 1938
Plenipotentiary for the Four-Year
Plan Göring
Field Marshal General
Source of English translation: Regulation for the Elimination of the Jews from the Economic Life of Germany (November 12, 1938), Reichsgesetzblatt I, 1938, p. 1580, in Yitzhak Arad, Israel Gutman, and Abraham Margaliot, eds., Documents on the Holocaust, 8th edition. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem, 1999, pp. 115–16. Used with permission of the University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem, from Documents on the Holocaust, Yitzhak Arad, Israel Gutman, and Abraham Margaliot, 8th edition, 1999; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Source of original German text: Verordnung zur Ausschaltung der Juden aus dem deutschen Wirtschaftsleben (12. November 1938), Reichsgesetzblatt I, 1938, p. 1580. Available online at: https://alex.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/alex?aid=dra&datum=1938&size=49&page=1758