How did Adolf Hitler weaken Germany’s state governments after passing the Enabling Act?

Following the passage of the Enabling Act in 1933, Adolf Hitler utilized his new emergency powers to systematically dismantle the autonomy of Germany’s state governments through a process known as Gleichschaltung (coordination).

Hitler’s administration effectively stripped the Länder (states) of their sovereignty by issuing a series of decrees. This process culminated in the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich on January 30, 1934, which formally abolished the state diets and transferred all sovereign powers from the individual states to the central Reich government.1

Prior to this, the Nazis had already begun consolidating control over regional administrative machines, most notably in Prussia. Hermann Göring, serving as the minister of the interior for Prussia, used his authority to purge the state's police force, placing it under Nazi control and integrating it with auxiliary units like the SA and SS. By centralizing these administrative and police functions, Hitler successfully eliminated the federalist structure of the Weimar Republic, ensuring that all regional authority was subordinated to his dictatorship.21