Die Entstehung des Preußischen Polizeiverwaltungsgesetzes von 1931

Using records from the archives which had not previously been evaluated, Stefan Naas reconstructs the history of the origin of the Prussian police administration law of 1931, a law whose influence is still felt today. This can be traced back to the president of the Prussian Higher Administrative Court, Bill Drews, who had drafted this as a reform act at the beginning of the 1920s. Drews failed at the beginning of the republic, but his concept did in the end become reality. The police administration law completed the organizational changes in the police which had started in 1918. It unified and modernized police actions, as well as making them more efficient, and thus became an integral part of modern German administration law.