Association of German Administrative Judges

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Association of German Administrative Judges
founding

1952

place Leipzig
Board Robert Seegmüller
Website [1]

The Federation of German Administrative Judges (BDVR) is the professional association of judges working at the German administrative courts . The association was founded on July 4th, 1952 and represents around 2,000 members through its member associations. The chairman is the judge at the Federal Administrative Court Robert Seegmüller .

Purpose and organization

The purpose of the BDVR is to promote a constitutional, independent administrative jurisdiction as well as the legal and professional interests of the German administrative judges . Members of the BDVR can be associations and working groups of active and retired administrative judges of the federal and state governments. The BDVR is the umbrella organization of the 16 national associations and the Association of Federal Judges at the Federal Administrative Court.

The BDVR is a non-incorporated association . Its organs are the general assembly, the board and the chairman. The board consists of 8 people and is elected for a period of 2 years. The headquarters of the BDVR is the respective office of the chairperson.

Association activity in Germany

Legal policy activity

The BDVR is the publisher of the four times a year journal for administrative jurisdiction 'BDVR circulars'. He takes a position on legal policy in legislative and judicial proceedings, in particular those at the Federal Constitutional Court and in press releases on individual events relevant to the association. The main focus is on judges 'salaries and pensions, legal recourse issues , administrative procedural law and procedural law , immigration and asylum law and the discussion of quality standards for administrative judges' work.

A statement of April 3, 2017 to the Federal Constitutional Court deals with the officially appropriate remuneration of judges.

Another statement from April 3, 2017 to the Federal Constitutional Court comments on the temporary judge.

A statement dated March 23, 2017 comments on the Federal Council's proposals for a draft law to better enforce the obligation to leave the country.

A statement dated March 16, 2017 comments on the draft immigration law presented by the SPD parliamentary group.

A communication dated May 5, 2015 relates to a current ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court on judges' salaries .

A statement from September 15, 2014 to the Federal Constitutional Court on a pending constitutional complaint procedure concerns competition for promotion in the public service .

A statement of July 29, 2014 to the Interior Committee of the German Bundestag dealt with the draft of a law to redefine the right to stay and the termination of residence .

At the beginning of October 2009, the BDVR also criticized the then Federal Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung ( CDU ) for influencing the appointment of a judge at the Federal Administrative Court . Jung had vetoed the nomination of a judge for the second military service senate because he had refused to do military service . According to Section 80 (2) of the Military Disciplinary Code (WDO), the judges at the military service senates are determined by the Federal Ministry of Justice . A departmental agreement between the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Defense, which had transferred the right of determination to the Ministry of Defense, was then canceled.

Training events

Through the German Administrative Court Association founded in 1989 . V. the BDVR organizes the Administrative Court Day every three years . The BDVR had previously organized the Administrative Judges' Day since 1961 . The 19th German Administrative Court Day took place in Darmstadt in 2019. In between, further training and other scientific events for the members take place at irregular intervals on so-called small administrative court days.

International cooperation

The BDVR works both with the German Judges Academy , in whose program conference it participates in an advisory capacity, and with the European Judges Academy. The BDVR is also a member of the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation eV

Supranational organizations are the German-Italian-French Association of Administrative Judges (VERDIF) and the Association of European Administrative Judges (VEV).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Articles of Association (PDF)
  2. https://www.bdvr.de/index.php/vorstand.html
  3. Web link to the current statutes of the BDVR, as of November 16, 2012
  4. Statements on the BDVR website
  5. BDVR: Opinions 2016/2017 Overview on the association website
  6. BDVR: Opinions 2016/2017 Overview on the association website
  7. BDVR: Opinions 2016/2017 Overview on the association website
  8. BDVR: Opinions 2016/2017 Overview on the association website
  9. BDVR press release on the judgment of the BVerfG of May 5, 2015 (2 BvL 17/09 et al.) On the R salary (May 2015): Judges' salaries are unconstitutionally too low - federal states must act quickly
  10. ^ Badische Zeitung: Federal Constitutional Court: Karlsruhe demands adequate payment for judges May 6, 2015
  11. BVerfG decision of December 16, 2013 - 2 BvR 1958/13
  12. BDVR: Opinions 2014/2015 Overview on the association website
  13. BDVR: Draft of a law to redefine the right to stay and the termination of residence here : Draft by the Federal Ministry of the Interior
  14. netzeitung.de Jung reaps criticism for interference in court ( memento from October 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  15. Editor nh24: Federation of German Administrative Judges criticizes Jung. In: nh24.de. October 6, 2009, archived from the original on December 24, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2014 .
  16. Ursula Knapp: Judge in the Military Service Senate - No more special rights Frankfurter Rundschau, November 2, 2009
  17. Web link to the official website of the German Administrative Court Association. V.
  18. ^ Administrative agreement on the German Judicial Academy of March 1, 1993 : 4th program conference
  19. irz.de: About us ( Memento from July 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive )