La Ley para solucionar los peligros que acechan al Pueblo y al Estado (Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich), mejor conocida como la Ley Habilitante de 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz, en alemán) fue aprobada por el Parlamento alemán el 23 de marzo de 1933, tras encerrar a todos los diputados del Partido Comunista de Alemania en campos de concentración. Fue el segundo instrumento jurídico, después del Decreto del Incendio del Reichstag, mediante el cual los nacionalsocialistas obtuvieron poderes dictatoriales bajo una apariencia de legalidad. La ley concedía al Canciller Adolf Hitler y a su gabinete el derecho a aprobar leyes sin la participación del parlamento, lo que supuso de facto el fin de la democracia, de la República de Weimar y de su Constitución.

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The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) was a 1933 Weimar Constitution amendment that gave the German Cabinet – in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler – the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. It passed in both the Reichstag and Reichsrat on 24 March 1933, and was signed by President Paul von Hindenburg later that day. The act stated that it was to last four years unless renewed by the Reichstag, which occurred twice. The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers. It followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree, which abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government. The combined effect of the two laws was to transform Hitler's government into a de facto legal dictatorship. The formal name of the Enabling Act was Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich ("Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich"). It was enacted by the Reichstag (meeting at the Kroll Opera House), where non-Nazi members were surrounded and threatened by members of SA and SS. The Communists had already been repressed and were not able to vote, and some Social Democrats were kept away as well. In the end, nearly all of those present voted for the act, except for the Social Democrats, who voted against it.

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