Expropriation
Georg Elser’s father Ludwig died on August 11, 1942. His son being one of his heirs, his location needed to be found out. The Heidenheim public notary’s office established on September 12, 1942 that Georg Elser was entitled to 3/20 of his father’s estate. It noted that Elser had “carried out the attack on the Führer in Munich. No information is available on whether he is alive or dead.” Via Heidenheim District Court and Ellwangen Regional Court, the case was passed on to the presiding judge at the higher regional court in Stuttgart. He, in turn, requested instructions from the Reich Justice Ministry, which forwarded the case as a “confidential Reich matter” to the senior Reich prosecutor at the “People’s Court” with a request to deal with it.
The senior Reich prosecutor at the “People’s Court” passed the request on to the Reich Security Main Office, which established on November 18, 1942, “that Johann Georg Elser’s ambitions were hostile to the nation and the state.” This was the legal basis for the Bavarian state interior ministry confiscating “the entire assets of Johann Georg Elser” for the German Reich on December 15, 1942. The individual responsible for seizing the “enemy of the people’s” inheritance was the senior finance president in Munich. The full sum was 200.47 Reichsmarks, which were now expropriated.
