Civil Service Law

Statutory legislation governing public-sector employment and civil servants. Notably, Germany’s 1933 Civil Service Law (Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service) dismissed Jewish and politically disloyal academics and officials, and later laws governed redundancy and termination of state employees.

Claims that use this term

• The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities
• The redundant officials were terminated under the 1962 Civil Service Law on redundancy grounds