Altenburg District Court

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The Altenburg Social Court is now located in the former regional court building .

The district court Altenburg was in 1879 Altenburg Canada based regional court that the Higher Regional Court in Jena was assumed. It was created with the introduction of the Imperial Court Constitutional Law in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in 1879 from the Altenburg Court of Appeal. Since the spatial area of ​​responsibility was retained, the Altenburg Regional Court was responsible for the entire state territory of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg.

These included the following 6 or 7 (from 1906) local courts:

Between 1881 and 1923, the district court also served as a disciplinary chamber for proceedings against state officials in the duchy and, from 1918, in the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg . After the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg in the state of Thuringia was opened up in 1920 , the court district of the authority was limited in 1923 to the city and district of Altenburg (district courts Altenburg, Meuselwitz and Schmölln), as well as the district court district of Ronneburg, which now belongs to the district of Gera . In 1949 the authority was dissolved and incorporated into the district of the Gera regional court .

The Altenburg Social Court now resides in the building of the Altenburg Regional Court . The trials against the Altenburg homosexual scene were negotiated here in 1937 and Rudolf Brazda served his sentence in the subsequent court prison.

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  • Carl Pfafferoth: Yearbook of the German Court Constitution, 1888, p. 432, online

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