Appellationshof Kassel

The Appellationshof Kassel or Appellationshof Cassel (French Cour d'appel de Cassel ) was a supreme court of the Kingdom of Westphalia with its seat in Kassel .

history

In 1807 the Electorate of Hesse went under and it became part of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . The judicial system in the Kingdom of Westphalia broke with the old structures. The Kassel Higher Appeal Court was also abolished. The Kassel Court of Appeal now served as the highest court (alongside the Court of Cassation (State Council); the Celle Court of Appeal was added from 1810 ).

The Appellationshof Kassel was responsible for appeals against judgments by courts in the departments of Fulda, Harz, Leine, Saale and Werra. The court of appeal consisted of three chambers, each headed by a president. The first two chambers had an additional six, the third five councils. The presidents of the embarrassing courts of justice (criminal courts) of the individual departments were also councilors of appeal courts. The general procurator was assigned to the first section (chamber). The first president received a salary of 12,000 francs, the other presidents 9,000, first class judges 7,000 and second class judges 6,000 francs. Every year two judges changed from one section to another.

In 1813 the Electorate of Hesse was restored. This involved the abolition of the institutions of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the restoration of the previous institutions and laws. This created the new Higher Appeal Court Kassel and the Appellationshof Kassel was dissolved.

Judge at the Appellationshof Kassel

Viktor Friedrich A. Gottlieb Ritter von Biedersee (President)
Wilhelm August von Meyerfeld (Section President)
von Motz (Section President)

literature

Peter Kumme: Legal history of Kassel in the 19th and 20th centuries ; in: Georg Wannagat: Kassel as the city of lawyers and the courts in their thousand-year history , 1990, ISBN 978-3452218018 , pp. 63–141
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. Contributions 100). ARL, Hannover, 1989, ISBN 3-88838-224-6 , p. 194 ff.
Anton Bauer: Outline of the court system of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Marburg 1811, p. 53 ff., Online

Individual evidence

↑ The contemporary spelling of Kassel was "Cassel" until the spelling reform in 1901. Correspondingly, the names of the courts were written with a "C". In the interests of better legibility, the spelling with "K" has been chosen throughout the text
^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia: 1811 , pp. 189 ff. Online
^ Johann Andreas Demian: Statistics of the Rhine Confederation States , Volume 1, 1812, p. 349 ff., Online
^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 81 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Biography on: Meyerfeld, Wilhelm August von in der Hessische Biographie

[1] The contemporary spelling of Kassel was "Cassel" until the spelling reform in 1901. Correspondingly, the names of the courts were written with a "C". In the interests of better legibility, the spelling with "K" has been chosen throughout the text

[2] Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia: 1811 , pp. 189 ff. Online

[3] Johann Andreas Demian: Statistics of the Rhine Confederation States , Volume 1, 1812, p. 349 ff., Online

[4] Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 81 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[5] Biography on: Meyerfeld, Wilhelm August von in der Hessische Biographie