Official court

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The Ämtergericht was a court for disputes of the guilds (North German offices ) in Hamburg .

Originally, each guild in Hamburg chose two patrons from among the city's mayors and senators . This cartridge regulated the disputes between the members of the respective guild. Problems between different guilds or with citizens were regulated by the Senate.

In 1712 it was determined by the office regulation of the Imperial Commission that the patronage among the senators would be raffled and that these patronages would be inherited by the respective successor. These patrons also regulated the disputes within and between the individual guilds. According to this office regulation, an office court should also be set up. However, this only came into force in 1750. This official court consisted of the youngest mayor, if he was not President of the Senate, two lawyers from the lower court , two senior elders and four senior officials , who were elected annually by the other members. Matters that could not be regulated by the cartridges were passed on to this administrative court.

During the French period in Hamburg , the district court was suspended on May 27, 1814 and provisionally reinstated on March 21, 1816. Now the district court was the first instance responsible for all disputes between the guilds. The second instance was the Senate.

The General Regulations of April 1835 put the district court again as a second instance permanently in force. According to this, the court now consisted of a legal mayor as president, two senators, a legal and a commercial, two lawyers elected for four years each, two senior elected officials each year, and two senior officials elected for four years each.

In 1860 the senators were replaced by members of the Hamburg Higher Court. The trade law of November 7, 1864 repealed the guild laws and the disputes between the guilds were assigned to the ordinary courts. From February 1, 1865, the district court only handled ongoing proceedings.

Since the proceedings at the ordinary courts took too long, a settlement authority for guild matters was set up in 1869 . This settlement authority was replaced in 1875 by an arbitration tribunal for the trade . On April 1, 1892, a new trade court was finally set up.

literature

  • Johann Martin Lappenberg : General regulations for the Hamburg offices and brotherhoods . In: Collection of the regulations of the Freyen Hanseatic City of Hamburg, since 1814 . Fourteenth volume. Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1837, p. 107–187 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • Nicolaus Adolf Westphalen : Hamburg's constitution and administration in their gradual development up to the most recent times . Second, continuously increased and improved edition. tape 1 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1846, p. 441–451 ( digitized on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library ).
  • Friedrich Georg Buek : District Court . In: The Hamburg Oberalts, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 411–412 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • Annotated overview of the holdings of the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . In: Paul Flamme, Peter Gabrielsson and Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt (eds.): Publications from the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Second enlarged and improved edition. tape XIV . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1999, p. 79–80 ( PDF on the pages of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg).