Decisions of the Reichsgericht in criminal matters

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The decisions of the Reichsgericht in criminal matters are the collection of the most important criminal law decisions of the German Reichsgericht, initiated by the court itself and published on the basis of private law .

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It consists of 77 volumes that were published between 1880 and 1944 and comprise over 11,000 decisions on around 36,000 pages. In 2008 a 78th volume was published by Verlag Walter de Gruyter , which contains those decisions that were marked as intended for publication but were no longer published due to the war. One review says: "It seems eerie how" justice "is pronounced there, while thousands and thousands continue to perish in the war."

The frequently used term 'official collection' is misleading. The corresponding collection of the previous Prussian Upper Tribunal bore the addition "on official order". Such an addition was deliberately omitted for the decision collections of the Reichsgericht in order to exclude from the outset any possible influence of the Reichsjustizamt on the publication practice. The collection of the "Jurisprudence of the Reich Court in Criminal Matters", published by the Reich Attorney General, competed with the RGSt . With RGSt. In 19 both collections were combined.

The abbreviation RGSt is used as the reference . Then the volume, the page on which the decision in question begins and, if applicable, the page to which you specifically refer, are named.

Example of a reference
“RGSt 32, 165, 190” means that reference is made to a decision in volume 32 of the collection, which begins on page 165 ( electricity theft case ), and that reference is made in particular to page 190.

In the tradition of the RGSt is the collection with the decisions of the Federal Court of Justice in criminal matters (BGHSt).

Private law decisions were collected in the decisions of the Reich Court in Civil Matters (RGZ).

See also

literature

  • Werner Schubert : The "Decisions of the Reich Court in Civil Matters" and their significance for the development of civil law in the 20th and 21st centuries, JR 2007, p. 312

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Schubert (ed.): Decisions of the Reichsgericht in criminal matters - RGSt Volume 78 -, ed. v. the members of the Court of Justice and the Reich Prosecutor's Office, continued for the period from May 1944 to March 1945, Berlin 2008, X, 245 S., ISBN 978-3-11-096985-6 , DOI: 10.1515 / 9783110969856 , ( limited preview in the Google Book Search)
  2. ↑ Ralph Dobrawa: The Reichsgericht in 1945 ( Memento of April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Ossietzky 23/2008; see also review Gerhard Köbler , ZRG GA Volume 127 (2010), p. 177 ( online )
  3. ↑ Detlev Fischer: Official guidelines and collections of decisions - An overview based on the development in the field of ordinary jurisdiction, in: Juristische Schulung 1995, p. 657.

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