The
Reichsvertretung provided administrative know-how for
Jewish Germans to organize self-help. It established central welfare organizations, occupational retraining for dismissed officials (fired in accordance with the
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, passed 7 April 1933), preparation for emigration, built up schools and institution of elementary to higher education open for Jewish students and pupils. Thus the
Reichsvertretung could develop – at least to some extent – a response to the
Racial policy of Nazi Germany.. With the passing of the
Nuremberg Laws in 1935, the
Reichsvertretung was forced to rename itself as
Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Deputation of the Jews in Germany). In the same year
Israelitisches Familienblatt, newly relocated to Berlin, became the press organ of the Reichsvertretung. After the
November Pogrom in 1938 the
Reichsvertretung had to rename into
Reichsverband der Juden in Deutschland (), now adopting also many administrative tasks, which especially many of the smaller and impoverished Jewish congregations, reduced in their personnel by the arrests and emigrations, could not maintain any more. In February 1939, this organisation assumed the name
Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (). This is to be distinguished from the new
Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, which emerged in July 1939, when the
Reichssicherheitshauptamt subjected the old
Reichsvereinigung, representing Jewish interests at a Reich's level, into a subordinate branch – using the same name and more or less the same personnel – of the state administration. This was then in charge of announcing the ever-growing number of anti-Semitic discriminations to its members, and supervising their obedience. In June 1943, the
Reichssicherheitshauptamt forcibly dissolved the new
Reichsvereinigung. ==References==