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• The Trustees of Labour were established by the Law on the Trustees of Labour () of 19 May 1933.Gesetz über Treuhänder der Arbeit (19.05.1933) in documentArchiv.de
• The first trustees were appointed by Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler on 15 June 1933.WEB,dfg-viewer.de/show?tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fpm20.zbw.eu%2Ffolder%2Fpe%2F0373xx%2F037396%2Fpublic.mets&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&cHash=50dd9bd57689d8297be96a19dace58d3, Ernennung der Treuhänder der Arbeit, Hamburger Tageblatt 138, 16 June 1933, 6 February 2024, 4 February 2024,web.archive.org/web/20240204012316/https://dfg-viewer.de/show?tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fpm20.zbw.eu%2Ffolder%2Fpe%2F0373xx%2F037396%2Fpublic.mets&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&cHash=50dd9bd57689d8297be96a19dace58d3, live,
• There initially was one trustee for each of thirteen economic areas (Wirtschaftsgebiete).{{sfn|Broszat|1981|p=142}}
• By 1941, due to the geographic expansion of the Reich, there were twenty-two trustees and the position remained in existence through the fall of the Nazi regime in May 1945.{{sfn|Zentner|Bedürftig|1997|pp=969–970}}
• The trustees were recruited from the state and Party bureaucracy, the private sector or the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce.
• The trustees were Reich officials and were supervised by the Reich Ministry of Labour under Franz Seldte.{{sfn|Broszat|1981|p=147}}
• Their term of office was for one year and was renewable every year.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance of labor peace
• Establishment of wage rates
• Resolution of conflicts regarding working conditions
• Oversight of the establishment of the Councils of Trust ()
• Monitoring compliance with operating regulations
• Review and approval of dismissals, particularly mass layoffs

Effects

• The regulation of labour conflicts and the setting of wage levels by the trustees replaced collective bargaining between employers and employees.{{sfn|Broszat|1981|p=142}}
• Since the decisions of the trustees were legally binding, strikes were effectively outlawed.{{sfn|Shirer|1960|p=203}}
• Employer associations welcomed the new authority and the persons chosen for it fairly unanimously. The trustees were generally more sympathetic to the interests of the economy than they were to the workers, and generally served the employers’ interests.{{sfn|Broszat|1981|pp=142, 144}}
• Robert Ley, head of the Nazi Party’s German Labor Front, summed up the effect of the new system as restoring “absolute leadership to the natural leader of a factory – that is, the employer … Only the employer can decide … Many employers have for years had to call for the ‘master in the house’. Now they are once again to be the ‘master in the house’”.{{sfn|Shirer|1960|p=203}}

Selected Trustees of Labour

• {{ill|Emil Bannemann|de{edih} (1902–1957), Saxony (1936–1937)
• {{ill|Franz Binz|de}} (1896–1965), Rhineland (1939–1945)
• {{ill|Gustav Böhm (Jurist)|de|lt=Gustav Böhm}} (1888–?), Saarpfalz (1935–1939); Upper Austria (1940–1945)
• Wilhelm Börger (1896–1962), Rhineland (1934–1939)
• {{ill|Franz Claassen|de}} (1881–1945), Pomerania (1934–1939)
• {{ill|Léon Daeschner|de}} (1894–?), Brandenburg (1933–1939)
• {{ill|Johannes Engel (politician)|de|Johannes Engel (Politiker)|lt=Johannes Engel}} (1894–1973), Brandenburg (1933–1934)
• {{ill|Kurt Frey (politician)|de|Kurt Frey (Politiker, 1902)|lt=Kurt Frey}} (1902–1945), Bavaria (1934–1942)
• Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (1894–1976), Pomerania (1933–1934)
• {{ill|Karl Hahn (politician)|de|Karl Hahn (Politiker, 1901)|lt=Karl Hahn}} (1901–1982), Westphalia (1934–1943)
• {{ill|Arno Hoppe|de}} (1882–1945), Saxony (1933–1934)
• Karl Kimmich (1880–1945), Southwest Germany (1933–1938)
• {{ill|Josef Klein (NS-Funktionär)|de|lt=Josef Klein}} (1890–1952), Westphalia (1933–1934)
• {{ill|Carl Lüer|de}} (1897–1969), Hesse (1933–1934)
• Richard Markert (1891–1957), Lower Saxony (1933–1935)
• Kurt Melcher (1891–1970), Reich Trustee for public service (1935–1945)
• {{ill|Heinrich Nietmann|de}} (1901–1961), Saarpfalz (1940–1943)
• Alfred Proksch (1891–1981), Ostmark (1938–1940); Vienna/Lower Austria (1940–1943)
• {{ill|Günther Rachner|de}} (1891–1945), Lower Silesia (1943–1945)
• {{ill|Fritz Schmelter|de}} (1904–1964), Hesse (1938–1942)
• {{ill|Hans Schreiber|de|Hans Schreiber (Politiker, 1896)|lt=Hans Schreiber}} (1896–1943), East Prussia (1933–1943)
• Walter Schuhmann (1898–1956), Silesia (1936–1941); Lower Silesia (1941–1943)
• {{ill|Ernst Stiehler|de}} (1887–?), Saxony (1934–1936)
• Friedrich Völtzer (1895–1951), Nordmark (1933–1943)
• Karl Heinrich Wiesel (1889–?), Central Germany (1933–1937)}}

References

Sources

• BOOK, Broszat, Martin, The Hitler State: The Foundation and Development of the Internal Structure of the Third Reich, Longman Inc., New York, 1981, 978-0-582-48997-4,
• Mason, Tim (1993): Social Policy in the Third Reich. The Working Class and the ‘National Community’. Translated by John Broadwin, Berg Publishers: Oxford, New York, {{ISBN|978-0-854-96410-9}}, pp. 104, 135, 176.
• BOOK, Shirer, William, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1960, 978-0-831-77404-2,
• BOOK, Zentner, Christian, Bedürftig, Friedemann, 1997, 1991, The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, Da Capo Press, New York, 978-0-306-80793-0,

External links

• www.verfassungen.de/de/de33-45/treuhaender33.htm" title="web.archive.org/web/20110706110941www.verfassungen.de/de/de33-45/treuhaender33.htm">Gesetz über Treuhänder der Arbeit Trustees of Labour Act (in German)
• www.verfassungen.de/de/de33-45/arbeit34.htm" title="web.archive.org/web/20110706111026www.verfassungen.de/de/de33-45/arbeit34.htm">Gesetz zur Ordnung der nationalen Arbeit Work Order Act (in German)