纳粹德国动物保护法(1933)

NAZI GERMANY AND ANIMAL

RIGHTS

1933 Law on Animal Protection

(Signed into law, 11/24/1933)

Cruelty to Animals

Measures for the Protection of Animals

Experiments on

Living Animals

Provisions for Punishment

Conclusion

The government has resolved on the following law, which is hereby made known:

Section I

Cruelty to Animals

#1

(1) It is forbidden to unnecessarily torment or roughly mishandle an animal.

(2) One torments an animal when one repeatedly or continuously causes

appreciable pain or suffering; the torment is unnecessary in so far as it does not serve

any rational, justifiable purpose. One mishandles an animal when one causes it

appreciable pain; mishandling is rough when it corresponds to an unfeeling state of

mind.

Section II

Measures for the Protection of Animals

#2

It is forbidden:

1. to so neglect an animal in one's ownership, care or accommodation that it thereby

experiences appreciable pain or appreciable damage;

2. to use an animal unnecessarily for what clearly exceeds its powers or causes it

appreciable pain, or which it-in consequence of its condition-is obviously not capable

of;

3. to use and animal for demonstrations, film-making, spectacles, or other public

events to the extent that these events cause the animal appreciable pain or appreciable

damage to health;

4. to use a fragile, ill, overworked or old animal for which further life is a torment for

any other purpose than to cause or procure a rapid, painless death;

5. to put out one's domestic animal for the purpose of getting rid of it;

6. to set or test the power of dogs on cats, foxes, and other animals;

7. to shorten the ears or the tail of a dog over two weeks old. This is allowed if it is

done with anesthesia;

8. to shorten the tail of a horse. This is allowed if it is to remedy a defect or illness of

the tail and is done by a veterinarian and under anesthesia;

9. to perform a painful operation on an animal in an unprofessional manner or without

anesthesia, or if anesthesia in a particular case is impossible according to veterinary

standards;

10. to kill an animal on a farm for fur otherwise than with anesthesia or in a way that

is, in any case, painless;

11. to force-feed fowl;

12. to tear out or separate the thighs of living frogs.

#3

The importation of horses with shortened tails is forbidden. The minister of the

Interior can make exceptions if special circumstances warrant it.

#4

The temporary use of hoofed animals as carriers in the mines is only permitted with

the permission of the responsible authorities.

Section III

Experiments on Living Animals

#5

It is forbidden to operate on or handle living animals in ways that may cause

appreciable pain or damage for the purpose of experiments, to the extent the

provisions of #6 through #8 do not mandate otherwise.

#6

(1) The minister of the Interior can at the proposal of the responsible government

or local authorities confer permission on certain scientifically led institutes or

laboratories to undertake scientific experiments on living animals, when the director

of the experiment has sufficient professional education and reliability, sufficient

facilities for the undertaking of animal experiments are available, and guarantee for

the care and maintenance of the animals for experiment has been made.

(2) The minister of the Interior can delegate the granting of permission to others

among the

highest officials of the government.

(3) Permission may be withdrawn without compensation at any time.

#7

In carrying out experiments on animals (#5), the following provisions are to be

observed:

1. The experiments may only be carried out under the complete authority of the

scientific director or of a representative that has been specifically appointed by the

scientific director.

2. The experiments may only be carried out by someone who has previously received

scientific education or under the direction of such a person, and when every pain is

avoided in so far as that is compatible with the goal of the experiment.

3. Experiments for research may only be undertaken when a specific result is expected

that has not been previously confirmed by science or if the experiments help to

answer previously unsolved problems.

4. The experiments are only to be undertaken under anesthesia, provided the judgment

of the scientific director does not categorically exclude this or if the pain connected

with the operation is outweighed by the damage to the condition of the experimental

animals as a result of anesthesia.

Nothing more severe than a difficult operation or painful but unbloody experiment

may be carried out on such an unanesthetized animal.

Animals that suffer appreciable pain after the completion of such a difficult

experiment, especially involving an operation, are, in so far as this is, in the judgment

of the scientific director, compatible with the goal of the experiment, immediately to

be put to death.

5. Experiments on horses, dogs, cats, and apes can only be carried out when the

intended goal may not be achieved through experiments on other animals.

6. No more animals may be used than are necessary to-resolve the associated question.

7. Animal experiments for pedagogical purposes are only permitted when other

educational tools such as pictures, models, taxonomy, and film are not sufficient.

8. Records are to be kept of the sort of animal used, the purpose, the procedure, and

the result of the experiment.

#8