District court Köpenick

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District court building on Mandrellaplatz

The Köpenick District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction in the district of the Berlin Regional Court .

Seat and District of the Court

The court is based in the Berlin district of Köpenick . The district court district includes the Treptow-Köpenick district . President is Torsten Lübke.

history

The Köpenick District Court (then still in the spelling 'Cöpenick') was established in 1877 when the Courts Constitution Act came into force . It was subordinate to the Regional Court Berlin II and this to the Berlin Chamber Court . With two judicial posts (as of 1880) it was one of the small local courts in the district court district.

After the Second World War , the judicial organization was reorganized at short notice. The Soviet occupying power set up a district court in every district of Berlin. Accordingly, on June 1, 1945, the Köpenick District Court was established . The court district also became smaller, since a Treptow district court was also formed. The district courts were later named district court. At its 12th meeting on September 27, 1945 , the Allied Command decided on the judicial structure of the occupied city. One returned to the traditional division with three instances. Again 12 local courts were formed. The Treptow District Court was dissolved and incorporated into the Köpenick District Court.

A new court structure was introduced in the GDR in 1952. East Berlin was not part of the GDR due to its four-power status . The GDR court structure was introduced there with the ordinance of the East Berlin magistrate of November 21, 1952 on the “Constitution of the Courts of Greater Berlin”. The district court here (as in the west) continued to carry the name Kammergericht Berlin. The Köpenick district court was converted into the Köpenick district court , which corresponded to a district court of the GDR .

building

Disused prison wing of the district court building

The district court is housed in a building at Mandrellaplatz 6 (until 1947: Kirdorfplatz ). The building was designed in 1898 by the construction clerk Paul Thoemer at the Prussian Ministry of Public Works and executed from 1899–1901. It has been a listed building since 1977 .

A four-story prison wing is attached to the courthouse, but is no longer in use today. The prison was the scene of the Köpenick Blood Week in June 1933 , when the SA seized the prison and rounded up, tortured and executed hundreds of Köpenick citizens, some of them Jewish , some politically unpopular. A memorial in the prison wing today commemorates these events.

Plaque

Memorial plaque for Werner Seelenbinder

A memorial plaque for Werner Seelenbinder with the following text belonged to the building :

The courageous fighter for Germany's future / Werner Seelenbinder / geb. 2.8.04 murdered October 24th, 44 / Your name is our obligation / The pioneers of the 9th school.

This board was replaced by a new board in the 1970s:

The brave fighter / against fascism, / imperialism / and war / Werner / soul binder / in memory

The board was on the corner of Mandrellaplatz and Seelenbinderstraße.

On March 24, 2018, a newly cast plaque, identical to the old one, was inaugurated. A “citizens' initiative memorial plaque Werner Seelenbinder” had a replica made with donations and the support of the District Assembly (BVV) Treptow-Köpenick . The inauguration took place in the presence of the District Councilor Cornelia Flader ( CDU ); Representative Sascha Lawrenz spoke for the responsible BVV Committee for Continuing Education and Culture.

Superior courts

The Berlin Regional Court is superordinate to the Köpenick District Court. The competent higher regional court is the chamber court .

Personalities

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RGBl. P. 41
  2. ^ Carl Pfaffenroth: Yearbook of the German court system. 1880, p. 395, online
  3. ^ Friedrich Scholz: Berlin and its justice: the history of the chamber court district 1945 to 1980, 1982, ISBN 9783110086799 , p. 9 ff., Partial digitization
  4. ↑ VOBl. (East) p. 533
  5. ↑ Gedenkstaette-koepenicker-blutwoche.org : Welcome - Gedenkstaette Koepenicker Blutwoche, accessed on September 30, 2015
  6. ↑ Souvenir for Werner Seelenbinder The man who wanted to bring Hitler down. In: Berliner Zeitung , March 23, 2018
  7. ↑ Anti-fascist hip swing. In: Junge Welt , March 23, 2018
  8. ↑ Werner Seelenbinder - unforgotten! In: Neues Deutschland , March 26, 2018

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 18.9 ″  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 46.6 ″  E