Law of the Allied High Commission

The Allied High Commission took over the tasks of the three Allied Control Commissions in Germany after the Allied Forces officially announced the Occupation Statute on May 12, 1949 . The laws ( AHK laws ) enacted by the Allied High Commission , which were published in French, English and German, appeared in the form of official gazettes, the Official Gazette of the Allied High Commission for Germany , and were essentially intended to lay the foundations for a Create a democratic basic order in Germany, for example by abolishing the concentration of economic power in a few corporations and promoting co-determination, and reorganizing the judiciary and the executive. The official gazettes were printed in Baden-Baden .

The following laws had particular effects:

Law No. 9 “Special rights and diplomatic immunity of the international control authority for the Ruhr”, in which the far-reaching powers of the control authority created by the Ruhr Statute were regulated.
Law No. 13 “Jurisdiction in the Reserved Areas”, which excluded the jurisdiction of all persons and processes entrusted with matters of the High Commission by German courts.
Law No. 27 "Reorganization of the German Coal Mining and the German Steel and Iron Industry", in which the unbundling of the mining and steel industries was ordered. As a result of this law, almost all large corporations in these industries were broken up in 1951/1952 ( Friedrich Krupp AG , Hoesch AG , Thyssen AG , Mannesmannröhren-Werke , Flick-Group , the Reichswerke Hermann Göring and others) and then partially re-formed .
Law No. 63 “To clarify the legal situation with regard to German foreign assets and other assets recorded by way of reparation or restitution”, which for example led to the German shareholders of Algemeene Kunstzijde Unie NV (AKU) expropriating their AKU shares also had to accept with economic effects for the German western zones and the Federal Republic.

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annotated cabinet minutes 1949–1963 in the Federal Archives
Digital legal sources from the German National Library
Dieter Waibel: From benevolent despotism to the rule of law. Stages of development of the American occupation of Germany 1944–1949 (= contributions to the legal history of the 20th century. Vol. 15). Mohr, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-16-146604-7 (also: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 1995), online .
Law No. 63 to clarify the legal situation with regard to German foreign assets 1951 (pdf; 4.83 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ Law No. 13 of the Council of the Allied High Commission of November 25, 1949. Jurisdiction in the reserved areas. Schönfelder II , Civil, Economic and Judicial Laws, No. 211 a, accessed on August 23, 2018
↑ Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court , judgment of April 18, 1954 - 6 U 195/53 -, Betriebs-Berater 1954, 331; Federal Court of Justice , judgment of December 13, 1956 - II ZR 86/54 - JurionRS 1956, 13424, Rn. 8 ; Christine Haverland: AKU Cases , in: Rudolf Bernhardt (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Public International Law (EPIL), Volume 1, North Holland, 1992, pp. 95-97 .

[1] Law No. 13 of the Council of the Allied High Commission of November 25, 1949. Jurisdiction in the reserved areas. Schönfelder II , Civil, Economic and Judicial Laws, No. 211 a, accessed on August 23, 2018

[2] Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court , judgment of April 18, 1954 - 6 U 195/53 -, Betriebs-Berater 1954, 331; Federal Court of Justice , judgment of December 13, 1956 - II ZR 86/54 - JurionRS 1956, 13424, Rn. 8 ; Christine Haverland: AKU Cases , in: Rudolf Bernhardt (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Public International Law (EPIL), Volume 1, North Holland, 1992, pp. 95-97 .