September 29, 1933
Reich Hereditary Farm Law Excludes Jews
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On this day, September 29, 1933, the Reich Hereditary Farm Law reserved hereditary farms for owners of “German or kindred blood,” excluding Jews from that peasant status.
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On this day, the German government enacted the Reichserbhofgesetz, the Reich Hereditary Farm Law. It defined mid-sized farms as hereditary property that could pass only to a Bauer, a peasant who had to be a German citizen of “German or kindred blood.” A person with Jewish ancestry on either side, counted from 1 January 1800, could not hold that status.
The law took effect on 1 October 1933. It did not confiscate every Jewish landholding in Germany that afternoon. Later civil-service, citizenship, and Nuremberg measures are separate stories. This article dates the hereditary-farm statute, not those later bans.
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- The Hereditary Farm Law (September 29, 1933) · German History in Documents and Images · German History in Documents and Images View source
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