Regional Court of Göttingen
The Göttingen Regional Court is one of two regional courts in the district of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court , along with the Braunschweig Regional Court . It is based in Göttingen .
history
In the 18th century , the court organization in Göttingen was extremely confusing. There were twelve different courts of first instance in the city, which at that time had only about 7,000 inhabitants . The court court established in 1529 for the Principality of Calenberg-Göttingen was in Hann. Münden resident. It was an appeal court. However, it also had first instance responsibilities for the privileged classes. The highest instance for all of Hanover and thus also for Göttingen had been the Higher Appeal Court in Celle since 1711 . The restoration after the French occupation brought about the Royal Hanoverian Justice Chancellery in 1817, which was followed on October 1, 1852 by the Göttingen Higher Court. In the districts of the Göttingen Higher Court and the Osterode am Harz Higher Court, which was dissolved in 1859 and added to Göttingen, there were 25 district courts in 1852. There was also the University Court of Göttingen , which was responsible for civil and criminal matters as well as matters relating to the voluntary jurisdiction of students and university employees. The large number of small local courts soon proved to be impractical, so that as early as 1859 many local courts were overturned and added to the districts of other courts.
With the Imperial Justice Acts of 1879, the Göttingen Higher Court became the Göttingen Regional Court. The university court was then also dissolved. After 1945, the judiciary in southern Lower Saxony was rebuilt under the unencumbered district court president Walter Meyerhoff . The regional court of Göttingen initially belonged to the district of the higher regional court of Celle , which, along with the higher regional courts (OLG) in Braunschweig and Oldenburg, was by far the largest OLG in Lower Saxony . After 1945, discussions arose as to whether the OLG Braunschweig should be dissolved as the smallest OLG in Lower Saxony. In order to save the OLG, voices were raised that the Göttingen regional court should be added to the district of the OLG Braunschweig. At the political level, these initiators had the then administrative judge, member of the state parliament and later Minister of Science Thomas Oppermann on their side. The Interior Minister of Lower Saxony at the time, Gerhard Glogowski, also supported this proposal at an early stage and, together with Oppermann, brought the SPD parliamentary group on their side. The Celle lawyers vigorously protested against the separation and managed to get the CDU faction in the state parliament on their side. At the end of a controversial discussion, the Lower Saxony state parliament passed a majority vote on June 18, 1997 that the entire district of the Göttingen regional court would be transferred from the higher regional court district of Celle to the higher regional court district of Braunschweig on January 1, 1998. An attempt by the Celle lawyers to stop the law with a constitutional complaint failed.
Courthouse
The Göttingen Regional Court was initially located at Waageplatz, in the building in which the Göttingen Public Prosecutor's Office is based today. However, the building had already proven to be too small in the 1930s. The plans for a new building could only be implemented after the Second World War . In 1958, the new building on Berliner Strasse was ready to move into. But even this soon turned out to be too small. In 1992 the penal departments were able to move into the newly built extension. The administration and civil departments are still located in the front part of the building complex (see photo).
District Court District
The district courts of Duderstadt , Einbeck , Göttingen , Hann. Münden , Herzberg am Harz , Northeim and Osterode am Harz . The Göttingen Regional Court has around 478,877 court residents . Around 567 lawyers are admitted in the district of the Göttingen Regional Court (status 2004).
organization
From 2010 to 2016, Hans-Georg Haase was President of the Regional Court; Gabriele Immen became his successor in autumn 2016. For the 2004 financial year it was determined that twelve civil chambers , including two chambers for commercial matters , nine large criminal chambers , seven small criminal chambers, one large and three small penal enforcement chambers and two chambers for fines , were established at the Göttingen Regional Court . In 2004 the Göttingen Regional Court had 29 judges' posts . A model project of the state of Lower Saxony for judicial mediation of civil disputes has been running at the Göttingen Regional Court since 2002 with some success .
literature
- Edgar Isermann / Michael Schlüter (Ed.): Justice and Lawyers in Braunschweig 1879-2004 , Joh. Heinrich Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-926701-62-5
- Ten years of rebuilding the judiciary: Collection d. Decisions d. Appointment u. Civil Chambers of Appeal d. Regional court in Göttingen 1945–1955 , with d. Member d. Chambers ed. by Walter Meyerhoff. Göttingen 1955
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '17.7 " N , 9 ° 55' 52.1" E