The Law to Secure the Unity of Party and State (German: Gesetz zur Sicherung der Einheit von Partei und Staat), sometimes translated as the Law to Safeguard the Unity of Party and State, was a statute enacted by the government of Nazi Germany on 1 December 1933 that established a close interconnection between the Nazi Party (including its paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung, or SA) and the governmental apparatus of Germany.

After the Nazi seizure of power on 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler quickly set about taking control of all aspects of the German government and society.

[1] Armed with these sweeping new emergency powers, Hitler used them to enact a series of laws aimed at establishing his dictatorial control.

[2] By early July, all other parties, representing the broad German middle class, had been intimidated into dissolving themselves rather than face arrest and imprisonment.

The vehicle chosen was the Law to Secure the Unity of Party and State, which was enacted by the Reich government under the provisions of the Enabling Act on 1 December 1933.

§ 4 Any action or omission by members of the SA (including the structures subordinate to it) that attacks or endangers the existence, organization, activity or reputation of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, in particular any breach of discipline and order, will be considered a breach of duty.

§ 7 The law concerning the power to impose penalties on members of the SA and SS, dated 28 April 1933 (Reichsgesetzblatt I p. 230) is invalidated.

… the law puts the Nazi party and Storm Troops on the same basis as the army, police and government officials with public and legal functions to perform.