District Court (GDR)
The district court was a court of ordinary jurisdiction of the second instance in the GDR and for a transitional period also in the new federal states .
General
In 1952 the states in the GDR were abolished and a central state was established. The organization of the courts also followed the administrative structure: District courts were subordinate to the Supreme Court of the GDR . A district court was set up for each district of the GDR . The district courts were in turn subordinate to district courts for each district.
The district courts served as the second instance for appeals against judgments and other decisions of the district courts and as the first instance for criminal matters with high threats of punishment. In the first instance, the Leipzig District Court was exclusively responsible for legal disputes in the areas of patent, design, trademark and copyright law (also primarily vis-à-vis the State Contracting Court ).
The district courts were the successors of the previous regional courts . After the restoration of German unity, the federal judicial system was also established in the new federal states in accordance with the Courts Constitution Act . The district courts were converted back into regional courts.
In 1989 there were 324 judges working in the district courts and 336 prosecutors in the district prosecutors. In the mid-1980s, a district court director received between 2100 and 2500 marks in salary and 300 marks for service expenses.
East Berlin special case
East Berlin was not part of the GDR due to its four-power status . There, based on the GDR court structure, the ordinance of the East Berlin magistrate of November 21, 1952 on the " Constitution of the Courts of Greater Berlin " stipulated that the jurisdiction of the Superior Court of Justice as the Supreme Court of Greater Berlin, the City Court and the city district courts is exercised. The city court was called "City Court of Greater Berlin" until 1977, then "City Court Berlin, Capital of the GDR".
List of District Courts
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District Court Cottbus - Rechtsstrasse 3–4
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District Court Dresden - Lothringer Straße 1
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District Court Erfurt - Domplatz 37
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District Court Frankfurt (Oder) - Bachgasse 10a
- District Court Gera - Rudolf-Diener-Straße 2
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District Court Halle - Hansering 13
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District Court of Karl-Marx-Stadt (before May 10, 1953 and after May 30, 1990: Chemnitz District Court ) - Dr.-Richard-Sorge-Strasse (Hohe Strasse) 23
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District Court Leipzig - Harkortstrasse 9
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District Court Magdeburg - Halberstädter Straße 8
- District Court Neubrandenburg - Wolgaster Straße 12 (demolished in 2002)
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District Court Potsdam - Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 32
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District Court of Rostock - Ernst-Barlach-Straße 1
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District Court Schwerin - Wismarsche Straße 133
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District Court Suhl in Meiningen - Leipziger Strasse 2
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Legal bases
- Ordinance on the restructuring of the courts of August 28, 1952 ( Journal of Laws No. 120, p. 791 )
- Law on the Constitution of the Courts of the German Democratic Republic - Courts Constitution Law 1952 (§§ 46-51)
- Courts Constitution Act 1959 (Sections 57-61)
- Courts Constitution Act 1963 (§§ 25–28)
- Court Constitution Act 1974 (Sections 29-35)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Section 30 (3) GVG 1974 ; previously a civil senate of the Leipzig district court formed the patent court, see ordinance on the establishment of the patent court of May 21, 1951 ( Journal of Laws No. 61 p. 483 )
- ↑ OG Z 16, 184 = NJ 1981, 378 = GRUR Int. 1982, 259
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook of the German Democratic Republic 1990 p. 448
- ↑ Hans Hubertus von Roenne: "Politically unsustainable ...?" (1997), p. 20 ; Agreement on the performance-oriented increase and structuring of salaries for the employees of the judicial organs in the counties and districts of the GDR from January 21, 1985
- ↑ VOBl. (East) p. 533
- ↑ Friedrich Scholz: Berlin and its justice: the history of the chamber court district 1945 to 1980 , 1982, ISBN 978-3-11-008679-9 , pp. 132-133, online
- ↑ Ulrich Lohmann: On the state and legal order of the GDR, legal and social science contributions 1977-1996 , Wiesbaden 2015, p. 292 .
- ^ Budget of the city of Neubrandenburg 2014 . Volume 4 new: Budget Statutes, Urban Development Fund , p. 58 at the end
- ^ Directory of Telex subscribers in the GDR 1988 (PDF; 41.5 MB)