The Volksgesetzbuch was the attempt of

Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

jurists in the

Academy for German Law The Academy for German Law (german: Akademie für deutsches Recht) was an institute for legal research and reform founded on 26 June 1933 in Nazi Germany. After suspending its operations during the Second World War in August 1944, it was abolished ...

to replace the Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch by a civil law code aligned with the principles of

National Socialism Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hit ...

. The project was terminated in 1944 by Reich Minister of Justice, and head of the Akademie,

Otto Georg Thierack Otto Georg Thierack (19 April 188926 October 1946) was a German Nazi jurist and politician. Early life and career Thierack was born in Wurzen in Saxony. He took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 as a volunteer, reaching the rank of ...

References

*(German) Gert Brüggemeier: ''Oberstes Gesetz ist das Wohl des deutschen Volkes''. In: ''

Juristenzeitung The ''JuristenZeitung'' (''JZ'') (German: ''Lawyer's Newspaper)'' is a German legal magazine. It was founded in 1951 as successor to the ''Süddeutsche Juristen-Zeitung.'' It is published fortnightly by Mohr Siebeck and counts as the most import ...

'', pp. 45 (1990), S. 24–28, Law in Nazi Germany {{Germany-law-stub