Public Prosecutor General Frankfurt am Main
The General Public Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt am Main is one of 24 General Public Prosecutor's Offices in the Federal Republic of Germany and the only one in Hesse .
Tasks and structure
It is the technical and disciplinary superior authority for the public prosecutor's offices in Hesse (Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Fulda, Gießen, Hanau, Kassel, Limburg ad Lahn, Marburg, Wiesbaden) and the public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt am Main. The public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt am Main is bound by the instructions of the Hessian Ministry of Justice .
It has 93 employees in seven departments, including 34 public prosecutors and senior public prosecutors (as of early 2016). The office is in Zeil 42, 60313 Frankfurt am Main . Helmut Fünfsinn has been the head of the authority since October 1, 2015 .
The investigative authority is the General Prosecutor's Office for:
- serious state security offenses
- Money laundering
- Professional proceedings against lawyers and tax advisors
In 2014 she processed 390 appeals, 1,260 legal complaints, 2,264 complaints against the termination of proceedings by the regional public prosecutor's offices, 1,086 judicial complaints and 214 detention checks.
Special units
The GStA comprises two operational, investigative units.
Intervention reserve
In April 2000, an intervention reserve was set up to support the regional public prosecutor's offices (Department VII). Her focus is on white-collar crime , overarching and complex proceedings. It consists of a senior public prosecutor (head of department), two chief public prosecutors , six public prosecutors , an economic officer and a secretariat . The proceedings are assigned by the Attorney General.
Central Office for Combating Internet Crime
The Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (part of Department VI) was established as a branch in Giessen at the beginning of 2010 . It investigates particularly serious or extensive Internet crime (e.g. drug trafficking , data theft , child pornography ) throughout Hesse and consists of a senior public prosecutor and four public prosecutors.
history
In 1959, the then Hessian attorney general Fritz Bauer obtained that the Federal Court of Justice transferred the “investigation and decision” in the criminal case against Auschwitz perpetrators to the Frankfurt am Main district court . On Bauer's instructions, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office initiated investigations against former members and leaders of the SS guards at the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. The first Auschwitz trial in West Germany, the “criminal case against Mulka u. a. ", was finally opened in December 1963 against 22 defendants before the Frankfurt Regional Court.
In the summer of 2020, the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor's Office was shaken by an alleged corruption scandal that centered on a renowned senior public prosecutor. The top officials, who himself is one of the nation's leading experts in the field of combating crime and corruption in healthcare assets, has been in on 24 July 2020 remand taken. It's about Alexander Badle.
Attorneys General
- Georg Quabbe (1946 to 1949)
- Georg Heymann (1949 to 1951)
- Erich Rosenthal-Pelldram (1951 to 1955)
- Fritz Bauer (1956 to 1968)
- Horst Gauf (1969 to 1986)
- Christoph Kulenkampff (1986 to 1991)
- Hans Christoph Schaefer (1991 to 2001)
- Dieter Anders (2001 to 2009)
- Hans-Josef Blumensatt (2009 to 2015)
- Helmut Fünfsinn (since 2015)
See also
Web links
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 54.4 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 24.6" E
- ↑ Chief Public Prosecutor arrested in Frankfurt. In: hessenschau . July 25, 2020, accessed July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ René Bender, Sönke Iwersen, Volker Votsmeier: Chief Public Prosecutor arrested in Frankfurt. In: Handelsblatt . July 26, 2020, accessed July 26, 2020 .