English Translation

Copy of Rk. 7883 E National Socialist German Workers Party Party-Kanzlei Der Leiter der Partei-Kenzlei Führerhauptquartier, dem 23.7.1944 Ordnung 157/44 Subject: Retirement of full-time employees of the NSDAP., their sub-divisions and affiliated associations to the service of public authorities. In agreement with the Reichssschatzmeister, the Reich's Organizing Director and the chiefs of the divisions, I therefore order: 1.) Mainly employed persons of the NSDAP, their divisions and closed associations can only be employed in the N SDAP at the request of the competent Reichsminister (or Reichskommissar, Governor General, Chief Commissioner, etc.). 2.) The head of the Party Chancellery shall decide on these applications by decree of release in agreement with the Reichssschatzmeister and the participating departments. The Reich Treasurer shall complete the leave of absence and shall have the payment of the remuneration suspended. The period of leave shall be fixed in each case, in general, for a period of one year, unless a shorter period is requested. 3.) The release by the head of the Party Chancellery requires the following rules of service by the competent authorities: a) The remuneration is paid during the leave of absence by the national authority, even if the person on leave from the full-time service of the party is called to military service. The granting of secondment allowances and allowances, job allowances and service allowances