Soltau District Court

Main building on the Rühberg

The district court of Soltau is one of six district courts in the district of the district court of Lüneburg . It is based in Soltau in the Heidekreis district in Lower Saxony and has existed since October 1, 1852.

Responsibilities

The Soltau District Court is responsible for around 74,000 court persons in the towns and communities of the former Soltau district , including Soltau , Bispingen , Munster , Neuenkirchen , Schneverdingen and Wietzendorf . The district court of Lüneburg is superior to it. The competent higher regional court is the higher regional court of Celle .

history

Time before 1852

Since the granting of the soft image right in 1388, Soltau had a city court for civil matters and simple police criminal matters such as administrative offenses , whose city judge was the mayor. In December 1810 Soltau was directly subordinated to the French Empire . City courts and courts of the offices were repealed. The canton of Walsrode became the lower judicial authority for Soltau . After the end of the French occupation in 1813, the old official constitution of 1674 came into force again. Soltau in the district of Fallingbostel was again under the jurisdiction of the Celle law office . In 1823, when the Landdrosteiordnung came into force, all major and administrative bailiffs were dissolved. The Soltau office now belonged to the Landdrostei Lüneburg . Instead of the mayor, a lawyer was to exercise the office of city judge from now on. Until 1830 this was Johann Friedrich Daniel Jaep in Soltau. His successor was Franz Friedrich Achatz Eduard Weinlig.

Old town hall and former seat of the district court

Since 1533 the town hall has been housed in a former chapel in Marktstrasse. In 1826 the old town hall was built on Poststrasse, which in 1852 housed the district court. A courtroom, a registry and two prison cells have been located in the town hall since 1826 . On October 1, 1852, the city of Soltau gave up its independence and submitted to the newly founded Office Soltau.

From the founding of the Soltau District Court to the First World War

With the Hanoverian Courts Constitution Act of November 8, 1850, which came into force on October 1, 1852 , administration and justice were finally separated from one another. Each office received a district court. The Soltau office was also supplemented by the Wietzendorf parish from the Bergen office , the Munster parish from the Ebstorf monastery , the Bispingen parish from the Winsen office and the villages of Dethlingen and Sältlingen from the Müden parish . The office of Schneverdingen , which was also established in 1852, lost its independence and with it also its district court in 1859 and was assigned to the office of Soltau without the parish of Fintel.

The Soltau magistrates decided initially up to a value in dispute of 100 thalers , from 1859 up to 150 thalers. Publications appear in the Böhme-Zeitung since 1864 . The district court of Soltau was subordinate to the higher court of Celle. In 1864 the Soltau Office was responsible for 16,257 people. In 1866 Prussia annexed the Kingdom of Hanover . The Soltau office lost its independence and from then on belonged to the Greater Fallingbostel district. The first land registers were created from 1877.

In the course of the Great Imperial Justice Acts of 1877, the higher courts were replaced by regional courts . The district court of Soltau has belonged to the district court of Lüneburg since October 1, 1879 . As before 1852, the mayor of Soltau initially took over the post of public prosecutor as a local representative. On April 1, 1885, the seven great districts became twelve districts. Soltau got its independence back. The district of Soltau was identical to the district court district after the community of Fintel moved to the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) .

The limited space in the town hall repeatedly led to disputes between the city and the judiciary, for example in 1904 the two of them led a lawsuit against each other in which the repair costs of the stairs in the town hall were concerned. In 1908 the first plans for a new courthouse with a prison wing were presented. However, none of the numerous plans was initially implemented. It was not until 1939 that construction of the district court building on Rühberg and the district judge's house on Blumenstrasse began.

The time between the world wars

After the end of the Empire, the Royal Prussian District Court in Soltau became the Prussian District Court in Soltau. It bore this name until the beginning of 1935, when the National Socialists divided the German Reich into Reichsgaue . The highest employer of the Soltau District Court was now the Reich Minister of Justice in Berlin . The Ordinary jurisdiction has been withdrawn by the Nazis gradually more responsibilities. It finally culminated in the fact that Justice Minister Otto Thierack and Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler agreed in September 1942 that the ordinary courts voluntarily waive jurisdiction over minorities , which paved the way for annihilation through labor . Other sad highlights of this time were, for example, the arbitrariness in the name of the healthy people's feeling and the Polish Criminal Law Ordinance from 1941, which the Soltau District Court had to adhere to.

The burden on the employees of the local court increased steadily. So led z. For example, the occupation of the Wolterdingen camp with members of the SS and the drawing in of judges, public prosecutors and civil servants in the war to personnel shortages, so that neighboring district courts had to help each other out. Lawyers also had to help out in the public prosecutor's office.

On April 7, 1945, the last meeting of the judges took place in the district court, on April 18, Mayor Klapproth handed over the city of Soltau to the British military authorities. All German courts remained closed until further notice.

post war period

On April 19, 1945, the court of the 116th Military Government under Major Spence began its service in the premises of the District Court in the City Hall. There was, however, a complete standstill in the administration of justice. For a short time, according to Allied Ordinance No. 2, an upper, a middle and a simple military court were established, after a while only the simple military court remained in Soltau. The district court was reopened on October 18, 1945. In the case of crimes committed by and against Nazis or Allied forces, however, the military courts remained competent. No files were lost due to the war. By October 1948, the Soltau District Court had to submit reports on the convictions to the British military government . As early as July 1946, a judge's room was set up in the new building on the Rühberg.

The state of Lower Saxony was founded on November 1st, 1946; the official seal, which is still valid today, was introduced in 1953. The number of those in court doubled between 1939 and 1950 to over 65,000. By 1952, the number of judges' posts was gradually increased to a total of five. At the end of March 1950, the district court finally and completely moved from the town hall to the new district court building.

Current situation

From January 1972 there were electric typewriters and dictation machines. On July 1, 1977, the Soltau District Court became a family court . The sixth plan judge position was created. The court had the highest number of employees in history in 1986 with 72 employees. Due to a renewed shortage of space, a new building was discussed at short notice, but the decision was made to purchase the plot of land at Blumenstrasse 5, where ancillary buildings and a parking lot were created. The first computer was installed in 1987. During a visit by the Justice Minister Walter Remmers , a new building was again suggested, but it was broken. Between 1991 and 1994 the district court provided so-called partnership assistance for the district and later district court of Osterburg . At the end of 1995 Ute Klee was the first woman to receive a judge's position in Soltau.

In the course of the concentration in the judicial sector, the insolvency proceedings were handed over to the district court of Celle in 1999 , followed by the trade and cooperative register in 2002. The Central Dunning Court at the Uelzen District Court has been responsible for dunning procedures since 2004 . The central register court for keeping the trade, cooperative and association register has been the Lüneburg District Court since 2005 and the Hanover District Court for the partnership register . Further concentration of tasks can be expected.

Supervising judges, chief magistrates and directors of the district court

1852–1857: Otto Heinrich August von Dannenberg
1857–1858: Anselm Haber
1858–1879: Carl Johann Soltmann
1879–1886: Johann Christian Friedrich Kroseberg
1886–1891: Georg Meinhard
1891–1904: Ulfert Vietor
1904–1911: Friedrich Papendieck
1912–1914: August Kracke
1914–1922: Wilhelm Starcke
1923–1946: Wilhelm Metge
1947–1961: Johann-Carl wing
1962–1966: Heinrich Grotewold
1966–1985: Walter Stoppel
1985-1995: Bodo von Harbou
1996–2015: Sigmar Rundt
since 2015: Carsten Springer

Staff and premises

The district court has a total of 48 employees, including six judges , eight judicial officers and five bailiffs . The main building is located on the Rühberg, there are also two branches on Blumenstrasse.

Web links

Internet presence of the Soltau District Court

literature

Sigmar Rundt (Ed.): 150 Years of the Soltau District Court - Justice in constant change , Mundschenk Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-933802-05-9 .

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