[5] This role continued during the Weimar Republic era (1919–1933): Article 70 of the 1919 Weimar Constitution commanded that laws had to be published within a month of their adoption in the Reichsgesetzblatt and Article 71 again established that – in the absence of a special provision – they entered into force 14 days after their publication.

[7] The predecessors of the Reichsgesetzblatt were the Bundes-Gesetzblatt für den Norddeutschen Bund [de] (Federal Law Gazette for the North German Confederation), the official journal of the North German Confederation, which was established on 26 July 1867, and the older Gesetzessammlung [de] of the Kingdom of Prussia.

1 to 3 of the 1871 volume of the Reichsgesetzblatt were still published under the title Bundesgesetzblatt für den Norddeutschen Bund (Federal Law Gazette for the North German Confederation), while the issues No.

4 to 18 (27 January 1871 – 2 May 1871) of said volume were titled Bundesgesetzblatt für den Deutschen Bund (Federal Law Gazette for the German Confederation).

Publications concerning: In 1924, publications concerning the "Administration of the Reichsbahn Company" (Verwaltung der Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft) and "Matters of Industrial Burden" (Angelegenheiten der Industriebelastung) were added as topics for part II of the gazette by a proclamation dated 30 August 1924.

[18][19] In 1924, the legal scholar J. Jastrow considered this to be the most important change in the history of the Reichsgesetzblatt because since then it was no longer the only government gazette in which all laws (in a material sense) had to be published.

aufgehört, 'die' Gesetzsammlung des Deutschen Reiches (in vollendetem Sinne) zu sein.

The Enabling Act of 1933, for example, provided in its Article 3 that all laws enacted by the government – and not only those passed by the legislature (the Reichstag) – were to be published in the Reichsgesetzblatt.

[7] He comments: Das Reichsgesetzblatt bot also nicht allein keine Gewähr mehr für Vollständigkeit, sondern verlor gleichzeitig auch seine exklusive Ausrichtung als Verkündungsorgan von Rechtsnormen.

The Reichsgesetzblatt thus not only no longer offered a guarantee of completeness, but at the same time also lost its exclusive orientation as a promulgating organ of legal norms.

[23] In the wake of the Antiqua–Fraktur dispute, the Reichsgesetzblatt stopped using the typeface class Fraktur and began using Antiqua beginning with its first issue of 1942.

1896 p. 195) gives the citation for the original version of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (German civil code) on page 195 of the 1896 volume of the Reichsgesetzblatt,[2] while "RGBl.