District Court of Frankfurt am Main

Courthouse B from 1913–1917, from the southeast, 2011

The Richtstrasse from the west, building A from 1884–1989 on the right, building B connected by bridges on the left

Art. 1 para. 1 sentence 1 GG to building C

The Frankfurt am Main Regional Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of nine regional courts in the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court district .

Seat and District of the Court

The regional court (LG) has its seat in Frankfurt am Main . About a million people live in his district .

400 people are employed there, including 140 judges. There are 31 civil chambers , including 16 commercial chambers and one securities clearing chamber. Among the 35 criminal chambers there is a chamber for state protection, five youth chambers , seven economic criminal chambers , two environmental criminal chambers , two penal enforcement chambers, one chamber for fines, one for driving license matters and one for tax advisory matters.

Jurisdiction

The district court is responsible for beyond its own district

all patent disputes in the state of Hesse (Section 9 Judicial Jurisdiction Ordinance (Justizdelegationsverordnung - JustizDelegV));

Copyright disputes in the districts of the district courts of Darmstadt, Gießen, Hanau, Limburg and Wiesbaden (Section 35 JuZuV);

corporate law matters in Hessen (§ 20 GerZustJuV HE);

Topography protection matters throughout Hesse (§ 21 GerZustJuV HE);

Plant variety protection disputes in the federal state of Hesse (Section 22 GerZustJuV HE);

License plate and community trademark disputes in the state of Hesse (§ 23 GerZustJuV HE);

judicial decisions on avoidance actions in Hesse due to the ineffectiveness of the conversion or the change in the terms and conditions of the issue (§ 24 GerZustJuV HE);

civil disputes due to restrictions of competition in the districts of the district courts Darmstadt, Gießen, Hanau, Limburg and Wiesbaden (§ 25 GerZustJuV HE);

the judicial review in Hesse of the adequacy of the compensation for the lapse and the elimination of multiple voting rights (§ 26 GerZustJuV HE);

Injunction proceedings in Hesse (Section 27 GerZustJuV HE);

legal award proceedings under company law as well as the judicial selection and appointment of merger auditors throughout Hesse (Section 28 GerZustJuV HE);

Design litigation , community design litigation and utility model litigation in the State of Hesse (Section 29 GerZustJuV HE);

Olympic protection disputes in Hesse (§ 30 GerZustJuV HE);

Capital market disputes in the federal state of Hesse (Section 31 GerZustJuV HE);

Decisions throughout Hesse according to the law on corporate integrity and modernization of the right of avoidance and other legal provisions (§ 32 GerZustJuV HE);

Matters in Hesse according to the law for the implementation of the agreement on German foreign debts (§ 33 GerZustJuV HE) and

international legal assistance in criminal matters from the district court district Hanau (§ 35 GerZustJuV HE).

Courthouse

The court is located in Buildings B (mainly civil law) and E (mainly criminal law) of the Frankfurt court complex at Rechtsstrasse 2 .

Superordinate and subordinate courts

Location of the district court of Frankfurt in Hesse

The district courts of Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe , Frankfurt am Main and Königstein im Taunus . The district court of Usingen was closed on December 31, 2011. The competent higher regional court is the higher regional court in Frankfurt am Main .

history

The court organization in Frankfurt am Main initially continued after the annexation of the Free City of Frankfurt by Prussia in 1866. Instead of the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities , however, the Prussian Higher Tribunal came into force from 1867 . The court of second instance was the Frankfurt am Main city court with regard to the judgments of the city's two judicial offices and the Frankfurt am Main appeal court for judgments of the city court.

With the Courts Constitution Act of January 27, 1877, after the establishment of the Empire, the structure of local courts as the first and regional courts as the second instance, which has been in force since October 1, 1879, was created.

With the law of March 4, 1878, the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court was established (among other things). The local courts were established by ordinance of July 26, 1878. The district of the Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main included the district courts of Bockenheim , Frankfurt am Main and Homburg vd H.

On April 1, 1895, the Bockenheim district court was dissolved and its district court was assigned to that of the Frankfurt district court. On the other hand, on April 1, 1923, the district court of Usingen was changed and on January 1, 1930, the district court of Frankfurt-Höchst was changed from the Wiesbaden district court to the Sprengel discussed here. From 1943 the Frankfurt-Höchst District Court was a branch of the Frankfurt am Main District Court.

On March 31, 1933 opened Roland Freisler that the District Court assigned Frankfurt Special Court , which until March 1945 almost 1,700 political cases against 2,204 people, so-called " enemies of the people carried out". Those sentenced to death were executed in the Preungesheim prison.

With effect from January 1, 1949, the Bad Vilbel District Court district was separated from the Gießen District Court district and assigned to the Frankfurt am Main District Court. On January 1, 1954, the Koenigstein im Taunus district court moved from the Wiesbaden regional court district to the Frankfurt regional court district. The Bad Vilbel District Court was dissolved on January 1, 2005, and its tasks were taken over by the Frankfurt am Main District Court.

Johann Nikolaus Scheuer was from 2007 to 2015 and Wilhelm Wolf has been President of the court since 2016 .

literature

Erhard Zimmer: The history of the higher regional court in Frankfurt am Main . 1976. ISBN 3-7829-0174-6 , pages 28-30

Web links

Commons : Landgericht Frankfurt am Main - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Current complete edition in the legal portal of the Hessian state government
↑ Law on the establishment of the higher regional courts and the regional courts of March 4, 1878 ( PrGS 1878, pp. 109–124 )
↑ Ordinance regarding the establishment of local courts of July 26, 1878 ( PrGS 1878, pp. 275–283 )
↑ Law on the incorporation of the city of Bockenheim into the district of the city of Frankfurt a. M. and the repeal of the district court of Bockenheim on March 31, 1895 ( PrGS 1895, p. 78 )
^ Act due to change of the district court districts Wiesbaden, Frankfurt a. M. and Limburg of February 13, 1923 (PrGS 1923, p. 41)
↑ Ordinance on changing the boundaries of the district court districts of Frankfurt a. M., Hanau and Wiesbaden as well as the district court districts of Bergen and Frankfurt am Main from November 21, 1929 (PrGS 1929, p. 185)
^ Ordinance of the Reich President to ward off insidious attacks against the government of the national insurrection. March 31, 1933
^ Ordinance of the Reich government on the formation of special courts. March 21, 1933
↑ Frankfurt am Main website 1933–1945
↑ Gerd Weckbecker: Between acquittal and death penalty. The case law of the National Socialist special courts Frankfurt / am Main and Bromberg , Nomos, Baden-Baden, 1998 ISBN 3-7890-5145-4
^ Court organization (change of district courts) of December 14, 1948 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1948 no. 52 , p. 563 , item 728 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3,4 MB ]).
^ Law on Measures in the Field of the Organization and Constitution of Courts of November 17, 1953 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1953 No. 30 , p. 189–191 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,3 MB ]).
↑ Amendment to the Court Organization Act (GVBl. I pp. 507–508) of December 20, 2004 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 2004 No. 24 , p. 507–508 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,4 MB ]).

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[1] Current complete edition in the legal portal of the Hessian state government

[2] Law on the establishment of the higher regional courts and the regional courts of March 4, 1878 ( PrGS 1878, pp. 109–124 )

[3] Ordinance regarding the establishment of local courts of July 26, 1878 ( PrGS 1878, pp. 275–283 )

[4] Law on the incorporation of the city of Bockenheim into the district of the city of Frankfurt a. M. and the repeal of the district court of Bockenheim on March 31, 1895 ( PrGS 1895, p. 78 )

[5] Act due to change of the district court districts Wiesbaden, Frankfurt a. M. and Limburg of February 13, 1923 (PrGS 1923, p. 41)

[6] Ordinance on changing the boundaries of the district court districts of Frankfurt a. M., Hanau and Wiesbaden as well as the district court districts of Bergen and Frankfurt am Main from November 21, 1929 (PrGS 1929, p. 185)

[7] Ordinance of the Reich President to ward off insidious attacks against the government of the national insurrection. March 31, 1933

[8] Ordinance of the Reich government on the formation of special courts. March 21, 1933

[9] Frankfurt am Main website 1933–1945

[10] Gerd Weckbecker: Between acquittal and death penalty. The case law of the National Socialist special courts Frankfurt / am Main and Bromberg , Nomos, Baden-Baden, 1998 ISBN 3-7890-5145-4

[11] Court organization (change of district courts) of December 14, 1948 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1948 no. 52 , p. 563 , item 728 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3,4 MB ]).

[12] Law on Measures in the Field of the Organization and Constitution of Courts of November 17, 1953 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1953 No. 30 , p. 189–191 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,3 MB ]).

[13] Amendment to the Court Organization Act (GVBl. I pp. 507–508) of December 20, 2004 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 2004 No. 24 , p. 507–508 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,4 MB ]).