DRK law
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Law on the German Red Cross and other voluntary aid societies within the meaning of the Geneva Red Cross Agreement |
| Short title: | DRK law |
| Previous title: | Law on the German Red Cross |
| Abbreviation: | DRKG |
| Type: | Federal law |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Legal matter: | Administrative law |
| References : | 2128-3 |
| Original version from: | December 9, 1937 ( RGBl. I p. 1330) |
| Entry into force on: | January 1, 1938 |
| Last revision from: | December 5, 2008 ( BGBl. I p. 2346) |
| Entry into force of the new version on: |
December 11, 2008 |
| Last change by: |
Art. 11a G of November 15, 2019 ( BGBl. I p. 1604, 1620 ) |
| Effective date of the last change: |
September 1, 2020 (Art. 12 G of November 15, 2019) |
| GESTA : | M015 |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The DRK Law (DRKG), with the full title Law on the German Red Cross and other voluntary aid societies within the meaning of the Geneva Red Cross Agreement , is a federal law that in Germany on the basis of the Geneva Conventions the legal status of the German Red Cross (DRK ), the Malteser Hilfsdienst (MHD) and the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (JUH) as well as the tasks of the DRK. It replaces the “Law on the German Red Cross” of December 9, 1937, which was previously only indirectly applied by the courts.
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The DRK law passed by the German Bundestag in December 2008 defines the status of the DRK as the national Red Cross society in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany and declares the German Red Cross to be a “voluntary aid company of the German authorities in the humanitarian field”. As tasks of the DRC to support the are in the law Medical Service of the Armed Forces , the dissemination of knowledge of the international humanitarian law , to perform the duties of an official inquiry offices and mediation of exchanges of letters between family members and the investigation for the purpose of family reunification during an armed conflict further defined .
For the MHD and the JUH, the law stipulates the status of voluntary aid societies within the meaning of Article 26 of the first Geneva Convention of 1949, which was granted to them by letter from the respective Federal Chancellor in 1962 and 1963 and confirmed by renewed recognition in 1991. In addition, the DRK law contains naming and trademark law provisions on the use of the red cross symbol as well as the designations "Red Cross" and "Geneva Cross". In this regard, there was previously only civil law protection established under judicial law in Germany .
Comparable regulations are contained in Austria for the WCC in the Red Cross Act and in Switzerland for the SRC in the Federal Decree on the Swiss Red Cross and in the Federal Act on the Protection of the Sign and Name of the Red Cross . Abuse of the symbols and names of the Red Cross is regulated in Germany by Section 125 of the OWiG .
literature
- Christian Johann [Hrsg.]: DRK law: hand commentary. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8487-1758-3 .
