District Court Frankfurt am Main

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The courthouse A, a Wilhelmine neo-renaissance representative building from 1889
The Richtstrasse in Frankfurt with the district and regional court
Entrance to service building B

The Frankfurt am Main district court is a Hessian district court (AG) with ordinary jurisdiction with its seat in Frankfurt am Main .

Jurisdiction

The District Court of Frankfurt am Main is locally responsible for contentious and voluntary jurisdiction as well as criminal jurisdiction in the area of ​​the city of Frankfurt am Main and in the cities of Bad Vilbel , Eschborn , Hattersheim am Main , Hofheim am Taunus and Karben as well as the communities of Kriftel , Liederbach am Taunus and Sulzbach (Taunus) , insofar as they are assigned to the local courts. About 780,000 people live in the jurisdiction of the district court, it is the third largest district court in Germany.

As part of its local and factual jurisdiction, around 20% of the disputes arising in the State of Hesse are dealt with by the Frankfurt District Court. This proportion is exceeded at the register court , so 30% of the register matters in relation to companies with limited liability and around 55% in relation to stock corporations in Hesse are processed by the commercial register at the Frankfurt am Main local court.

Superior courts

The parent of the District Court of Frankfurt am Main is the district court of Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court District of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main .

Seat

Zuckschwerdtstrasse branch

The address of the local court is: Rechtsstrasse 2, 60313 Frankfurt am Main. There are also branch offices in Frankfurt at Heiligkreuzgasse 34, Hammelsgasse 1, Klingerstraße 20 and Zuckschwerdtstraße 58. The branch in Zuckschwerdtstraße in Frankfurt-Höchst is responsible for cases from the communities of Kriftel, Liederbach and Sulzbach and the neighboring ones Townships. Right next to the Highest District Court was a small prison , which for remand prisoners was used. The detention center was established in 1911 and closed in 2011. The most prominent prisoner in Höchst was the punter Nick Leeson , who spent several months in custody for extradition in 1995 .

Building A of the Justice Center in Frankfurt, which is now used by the District Court, was built between 1884 and 1889 based on a design by Karl Friedrich Endell and was initially called the Palace of Justice. This building was initially used by the Higher Regional Court from 1917, but is largely only used by the District Court today.

In 2006, the then Justice Minister Banzer proposed moving the district court from its historic location in the city center to a new judicial center near the police headquarters . Despite the elaborated plans, this project was not pursued by Banzer's successor, Justice Minister Hahn , also due to the resistance of the city of Frankfurt .

Organization and statistics

Personnel situation

With its 959 employees (as of December 31, 2018), the Frankfurt am Main District Court is by far the largest judicial authority in Hesse and one of the largest district courts in the Federal Republic of Germany. This includes those of the judicial service, the higher service as well as the general service and the judiciary (specialist) employees. There are also employees as bailiffs and law enforcement officers as well as those still in training.

Branches of law and departments

The organization of the local court is divided into the following branches / departments:

Family court

In addition to the most frequently negotiated divorce proceedings, among other things, so-called filial proceedings are also conducted before the family court. The latter include proceedings relating to parental custody or dealing with children. The family court is also responsible for maintenance and property disputes. In 2018, the family court had around 23 judge posts. The number of cases settled was over 7,000.

Criminal litigation departments

The criminal procedural departments of the local court are divided into those headed by single judges and lay judges' divisions headed by a professional judge and two lay judges (lay judges). The accusation and the expectation of a penalty are decisive for the distinction between jurisdiction. In the Höchst branch, only single judges work in criminal matters. In 2018, the criminal litigation departments were assigned around 34 judges who dealt with around 6,800 adult and 2,000 youth cases.

Civil litigation departments

Employees working in the civil litigation departments of the local court deal with legal disputes, in particular from the legal areas of road traffic accident law, travel law and copyright law, but also a large number of other norms that shape private law. Special departments that deal exclusively with these legal matters have been set up to deal with legal disputes in the field of tenancy law and residential property law. Most judges' positions - 42 - were assigned to the civil litigation departments in 2018. A total of over 22,000 cases were dealt with.

Deportation detention departments

After the completion of the state's own deportation detention center in Darmstadt, the number of deportation detention procedures reached an all-time high. In 2018 there were over 700 cases.

Supervision court

The number of ongoing mentoring increased significantly in 2018, which led to over 9,000 mentoring at the local court.

Register departments

The commercial register and the register of associations are kept in the register departments of the local court. The commercial register is divided into the commercial register A, in which so-called partnerships and their legal relationships are entered, and the commercial register B, in which so-called corporations and their legal relationships are entered. In 2018, more than 6,800 companies were entered in Commercial Register A and 30,000 companies in Commercial Register B.

Bankruptcy departments

The department for insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings set up at the local court handles both consumer and corporate insolvency proceedings, although not every corresponding application necessarily leads to the opening of insolvency proceedings. In 2018, the district court opened 644 consumer insolvency and 419 standard insolvency proceedings.

Land registry departments

The land registry set up at the local court makes entries of all kinds in the land register, which has been kept electronically for some time. The district court recorded over 12,000 changes of ownership in 2018.

Internet presence of the local court

The district court put its completely revised website online at the end of 2017. For representatives of the press, but also for other interested parties, a decision from everyday judicial life at the local court, which is perceived as remarkable, is made available there in an anonymous form and prepared in an explanatory manner. The Frankfurt District Court is also represented in the social media on Facebook.

education

On September 6, 2018, Justice Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann opened the district court's new training center in Bleichstrasse. The training offices, which were previously spread over several buildings, will be brought together on an area of ​​around 4,700 square meters by 2020.

history

Police headquarters building on the Zeil, around 1888

After the annexation of the free city of Frankfurt by Prussia the existing judicial organization had been largely adopted. The courts of first instance were primarily the city ​​office, the land office and the city court . The Frankfurt am Main District Court was created in 1879 on the basis of the Reich Justice Act. With 17 judicial posts it was the largest district court in the district of the Frankfurt am Main regional court. On April 1, 1895, Bockenheim (from the Hanau district) was incorporated into Frankfurt. At the same time, the Bockenheim district court was dissolved and its district court was assigned to that of the Frankfurt district court. From autumn 1945 the previous Höchst District Court was an independent department of the Frankfurt District Court and received unrestricted litigation competence on July 20, 1947.

Until it was destroyed in World War II , the court had its seat in the police headquarters building on the Zeil, built in 1888. After the war, the courthouse behind it was used.

Known procedures

Faurecia bribery affair

Controversial decision on legal aid

As a reference to the Koran , the decision of a Frankfurt judge was debated nationwide in 2007. Already in June 2006 the Family Court in Frankfurt am Main, citing the Violence Protection Act, assigned the marital home of an applicant, a German from Morocco , for sole use and forbade the violent husband from approaching the woman's apartment within 50 m .

However, she wanted to be divorced before the end of the so-called separation year and had applied for legal aid. During the preliminary proceedings, the responsible family judge had expressed concerns to the woman's lawyer and that she would reject the legal aid (to be paid by the state). The judge said that the prerequisites for legal aid did not exist because there was no unreasonable hardship according to § 1565 BGB . She suggested, however, that the proceedings should be suspended until the end of the year of separation. At the request of the lawyer, the judge was declared biased and the proceedings were transferred to another judge who was responsible according to the business allocation plan of the Frankfurt am Main local court. In a subsequent official statement, the judge justified her decision with reference to the Koran and pointed out, among other things, that both spouses came from the Islamic culture.

The notification decision had no legal consequences for the judge. The responsible Hessian Justice Minister Jürgen Banzer emphasized that the judge had "acted in the core area of ​​judicial independence" for which he had "great respect". The German Association of Judges welcomed Banzer's decision and would have liked the judiciary to have found more support here.

President of the District Court of Frankfurt am Main

  • 1945 - 1949 Count Leo Lanckoronski
  • 1949 - 1952 Karl Maas
  • 1952 - 1956 Hans Hofmeier
  • 1956 - 1975 Walter Karnath
  • 1976 - 1985 Heinrich Balser
  • 1985 - 2000 Manfred Wick
  • 2000 - 2009 Karl-Heinz Bernard
  • 2010 - 2015 Hermann Josef Schmidt
  • 2015 - today Erich Fischer

Personalities

See also

Web links

Commons : District Court Frankfurt am Main  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Frankfurt-Höchst District Court  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse of June 20, 2008: "Highest prison closes"
  2. ↑ Höchst Kreisblatt : JVA Höchst: The jail rests quietly  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kreisblatt.de  
  3. ↑ Helmut Schwan: Justice Location Frankfurt - Economy versus Tradition, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 6, 2006
  4. ↑ Frankfurt am Main Local Court (ed.): Annual press report of the Frankfurt am Main Local Court for 2018 .
  5. ^ Frankfurt am Main Local Court. September 21, 2017. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Decision of the month. August 31, 2018, accessed September 20, 2019 .
  7. ^ Frankfurt am Main Local Court. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  8. ^ Carl Pfaffenroth: Yearbook of the German court system. 1880, p. 424, online
  9. ↑ 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 ( preuß GS 1895, p. 78 )
  10. ^ Eckhart G. Franz , Hanns Hubert Hofmann, Meinhard Schaab: Court organization in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse in the 19th and 20th centuries - official spatial organization since 1800. Basic study 14, publications by the Academy for spatial research and regional planning. Articles 100. ARL, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-88838-224-6 , pp. 220, 223.
  11. ↑ No disciplinary proceedings against "Koran judge . In: Tagesspiegel from June 6, 2007
  12. ↑ Gisela Kirschstein: Judge refers to the right to punishment in the Koran . In: Die Welt from March 31, 2007
  13. ↑ Stern : Storm of indignation over the Koran judge from March 21, 2007
  14. ^ Press release from the Frankfurt District Court on the procedure
  15. ↑ Punishment judgment without consequences . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 11, 2010

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