Geltungsjude

Although the National Socialist concept of validity Jew occurs neither in the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi German Reich still in the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law of 14 November 1935 but was in use and describes that part of the "half-breeds ", which legally regarded by definition as Jews, in contrast to the persons who have been designated under the Regulation as a Jewish half-breeds.

Definition

Add to the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law, the group of so-called later Geltungsjuden is defined (2) in § 5:

Each of these individuals was thus defined for the Nazis as a Jew, therefore, is the name given to explain the " validity Jew ". The term " validity Jew " is defined as a message from the realm of 2 February 1942 with the " Jewish star ," which reports on the impact of mandatory labeling of the Jews:

The legal concept of " Jewish half-breed " was those " half-Jews " and " quarter-Jews " reserved for " not tended to Judaism ". This was the case when the Jewish spouses in a mixed marriage did not belong to the Jewish religious community and the legitimate children were Christian education. Such marriages were called " privileged mixed marriages ", the " fully Jewish " part was exempted from wearing the Jewish star, if children were present.

Consequences

Jews and them legally equivalent " Geltungsjuden " could not be citizens of the Reich and had no political right to vote. Geltungsjuden subject to the same discriminatory provisions and sanctions as " full Jews ".

A marriage to a " quarter-Jews " was prohibited Geltungsjuden.

German Jews were Geltungsjuden in the deportation deferred and spared if they were not married to a " full Jews ". 1942, arguing as to whether all Geltungsjuden should be involved in the extermination process. Wilhelm Stuckart pointed out that now more than 3000 application Jews were reclassified at their request on the "Jewish half-breed". They approved of Hitler in accordance with § 7 of the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law decisions would seem wholly unintelligible if now all Geltungsjuden would invariably deported as full Jews.

Exemptions

1939 lived in Germany to around 330,000 Jews and 64,000 " Jews of mixed first-degree ", 7.000 " Geltungsjuden " and 42,000 " Jews of mixed second-degree " with only one Jewish grandparent. According to § 7 ​​of the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law, Hitler personally had reserved its consent if it has departed from the criteria for classification as a Jew (or validity Jew ) and Jewish half-breed.

Such requests have been examined by several instances before they were ( nachmalig " Party Chancellery "), decided by the Ministry of the Interior, in consultation with the staff of the Deputy of the Fuehrer. Of more than 10,000 applications for the betterment were only a few succeed. It had the participation of the petitioners in the world war and political contributions to the "movement", their racial appearance and their assessment of character essential criteria. Only in two cases were " full Jews " favors. By the year 1941 reached 260 "half-breeds of the first degree " their equality with a " German blood ". In 1,300 cases, petitioners were reclassified from " Geltungsjuden " to the " Jewish half-breed". The historian Beate Meyer thinks that higher numbers likely. Uwe Dietrich Adam quoted from a letter from William Stuck Arts from 1942, in which he quotes, there are as yet been assimilated 3000 Geltungsjuden with the " half-Jews " ( " Jewish half-breeds of the first degree ").

Beate Meyer refers to an arrangement for ease of management from August 26, 1942: After such requests should not be more accepted and processed by favorable classification for the duration of the war.

In the context of the derogations and better positions is sometimes spoken of a " Honorary Aryans ". Beate Meyer uses the word " honorary Aryans " only in passing for exceptional cases in which " earned companions " with a Jewish background turned directly to the Party Chancellery and Hitler and without a formal process to achieve a status improvement. Steiner / Cornberg point out that it is not officially announced the term " honorary Aryans " and he was only colloquial use.