Already on April 7, 1933, Wilhelm Frick (born 1877 - executed 1946), Reich Minister of the Interior of the coalition government led by Hitler, issued the “Law for the Restoration of Professional Officials.” The "Aryan ancestry" dating back to 1800, required of officials under this law, made genealogy a vital political issue for the individuals affected and a central issue for society. Higher SS ranks were required to provide even a "great pedigree" until 1750. For genealogists themselves, the requirement to present pedigrees turned out to be, without a doubt, an unprecedented impulse for active work and supported at the state level by a growing interest in family chronicles, which - moreover, in a situation of economic crisis - was perfectly suited to, at least initially relegate critical issues to a secondary position. Interest in family chronicles was also greatly promoted by the “Imperial Law on Hereditary Peasant Households” of September 29, 1933, which regulated the right of sole inheritance, guaranteeing the lifelong right to own and inherit peasant households with an area of 7.5 to 125 hectares, and paid tribute to family traditions. The fact that both laws could be issued so quickly and almost immediately after the National Socialists came to power allows us to conclude that their ideological content was formed before 1933.