Loading…Hitler Consolidates Power With the Enabling Act The Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz) of 1933 gave the German Cabinet power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat, the legislative bodies of the Weimar government. It gave Adolph Hitler complete and absolute power over Germany. The passage of the Enabling Act required Hitler to … Continue reading The Enabling Act: Hitler Seizes Absolute Power