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1937 ORIGINAL REICHS CHANCELLERY DOCUMENT – AUTHENTIC WILHELM FRICK SIGNATURE – SCHUTZPOLIZEI MAJOR PROMOTION – ADOLF HITLER APPOINTMENT
Original June 1937 German Third Reich official appointment documentation bearing the authentic handwritten signature of Wilhelm Frick, Reich Minister of the Interior, concerning the promotion of Heinrich Schultz from Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei to Major der Schutzpolizei. The document, titled Vorschlag zur Ernennung (Proposal for Appointment), was submitted by the Reichs- und Preußische Minister des Innern (Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior) and bears the official stamp of the Präsidialkanzlei dated 10 June 1937. On 9 June 1937, Frick personally signed the approval statement, “Der Stellvertreter des Führers hat Einwendungen gegen die Ernennung nicht erhoben” (The Deputy of the Führer has raised no objections to the appointment). The lower portion contains the formal appointment authorization dated Berlin, 16 June 1937, issued in the name of Adolf Hitler as Führer und Reichskanzler, with the printed notation “gez. Adolf Hitler” (signed Adolf Hitler), indicating an officially authorized reproduction of Hitler's signature rather than a handwritten autograph. The accompanying personnel documentation identifies Heinrich Schultz, born 3 November 1890 in Ahrensbök, and records his police service beginning in Hamburg on 2 December 1919, subsequent promotions, First World War front-line service from 12 October 1910 [as typed] to 30 November 1919, and successful completion of the Schutzpolizei major-candidate examination in December 1936. A particularly desirable original Third Reich governmental document with an authentic ink signature of Wilhelm Frick, one of the principal architects of the Nazi police state, who served as Reich Minister of the Interior from 1933 to 1943 and was executed following his conviction at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946.
