Hanau District Court

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Main entrance to the Hanau Regional Court in the Hanau Justice Building

The Hanau Regional Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of nine regional courts in Hesse . It is based in Hanau .

history

The highest court in the state was the court court in the county of Hanau-Munzenberg . It was strengthened during the reign of Count Philip Ludwig II in 1606 by a Privilegium de non appellando , which forbade the appeal to imperial courts for all legal disputes with a value of less than 500 guilders . After the death of the last Hanau count , Johann Reinhard III. , In 1736 Landgrave Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel inherited the county of Hanau-Münzenberg, but immediately ceded the acquisition to his younger brother, Wilhelm VIII , as he himself was King of Sweden and thus stayed permanently outside the country. Due to the special circumstances in the family of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel, the County of Hanau-Munzenberg continued to be treated as a secondary education for younger princes of the Landgraviate for half a century , initially for Wilhelm VIII and from 1760 for Hereditary Prince Wilhelm (IX) . The judiciary and thus the court also remained independent. Not until 1786, when Landgrave Wilhelm IX. also inherited the Landgraviate, the County of Hanau-Munzenberg was brought closer to the Landgraviate. In 1791, Wilhelm IX. a new, unlimited Privilegium de non appellando illimitatum for the county of Hessen-Hanau-Munzenberg, but in the same year the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel became the highest judicial instance for Hanau.

Kurhessen

Photo from 1860/1865, from around Paradeplatz . Center: The Mariae Namen church , to the right of it the Hanau High Court building

The Napoleonic interlude left no trace in the country's judicial system due to the rigorous revision policy of the now Elector Wilhelm I. With the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts and received a parallel judicial organization, headed by the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel. The Hanau Higher Court - forerunner of the Hanau Regional Court - was responsible for the Hanau Province . This took about the north Main area of ​​the Main-Kinzig-Kreis and in addition a number of today's northern Frankfurt districts up to Bockenheim .

The Hanau courts had their seat in the old town hall since 1835 and received a courthouse in Bangert in 1842. This was a free-standing, three-story building with a large boardroom that was two stories high. It was destroyed in World War II.

Prussia and Hesse

Front to Nussallee in the design from 1911
Karl-Anton Schulte, President of the District Court in Hanau 1928–1933

During the German War of 1866, the electorate was occupied by Prussia and finally annexed . For the annexed areas this meant that in 1868 they were given an administration and a court structure based on the Prussian model . The Hanau Higher Court was renamed the Hanau District Court . It was the court of appeal for the district courts of his district. The Higher Appeal Court in Kassel was mediated and renamed the Appeal Court. It was now subordinate to the Higher Appeal Court in Berlin . The jurisdiction of the Hanau District Court was expanded to include the Orb District Court , whose territory had to be ceded by Bavaria to Prussia after the lost war.

On October 1, 1879, the Courts Constitution Act came into force. The higher court was now called the Higher Regional Court and was still in Kassel. Not all district courts should be converted into regional courts : either Hanau or Fulda should receive the court. Presumably because Fulda was a decidedly Roman Catholic , the Prussian state parliament finally decided in favor of Hanau, whose judicial district thus expanded to Hünfeld and Gersfeld . The resulting lack of space was resolved in 1880 when the Hanau District Court left the courthouse on Bangert and moved to a building on Neustädter Markt . This state of affairs lasted for around 20 years as the business volume increased, until the planning for a new, common justice building for both courts began. Fulda registered his claims again. Hanau outdid this desire with a generous concession to the Prussian state: It made the building site, part of the former German cemetery , which had been closed down in 1846, available free of charge as building site and also bought the old judicial building to the state for 300,000 gold marks from. The new building was inaugurated in 1911. It is the last major new judicial building of the Prussian monarchy. Badly damaged in the Second World War, it was rebuilt in a simplified form and still serves as a court building for the Hanau district and district court.

It was not until 1944 that the Hanau district court was separated from the district of the Kassel Higher Regional Court and incorporated into that of the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court . One of the last structures in Hanau to have survived from the time of the Electorate of Hesse was thus lost. The places that have meanwhile been incorporated into Frankfurt, which stretched from Bockenheim in the west to Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim in the east in a large arc north of the Frankfurt core city, gradually moved from the jurisdiction of the Hanau district court to the des in the course of their incorporation to Frankfurt District Court of Frankfurt am Main . After the war, Fulda also received its own regional court, the district of which was separated from that of the Hanau regional court. The district court districts of Bad Orb , Gelnhausen , Hanau, Langenselbold , Salmünster , Schlüchtern , Steinau , Wächtersbach and Windecken remained .

President

Presidents of the Hanau Regional Court were:

Surname from to annotation
Hermann Philipp Lang 1879 1887 * August 1, 1814, Rinteln ; † June 1, 1891, Hanau, came from Frankfurt
Karl Louis August Koppen 1888 1906 * August 14, 1831, Kassel; † 30 August 1910, Hanau, went to the 1906 retirement
Fritz Schulte-Uffelage 1906 1914 * 1848; † June 18, 1920, Bonn , retired in 1914
Julius Hermann Emil Grimm 1914 1924 * September 28, 1858 Wiesbaden; † March 21, 1945, retired in 1924; City councilor in Hanau: since 1924 (civil community list), 1929-April 1931 (German People's Party), 1924–1931 head of city ​​council
Friedrich Beckmann 1924 1928 previously: President of the Regional Court in Bartenstein , East Prussia , then: President of the Senate at the Wroclaw Higher Regional Court , retired in 1937
Karl-Anton Schulte 1928 1933 * December 27, 1873 Neisse , Lower Silesia ; † 1948 Maintal-Bischofsheim ; 1919 to 1921 member of the constituent Prussian state assembly , until 1923 member of the Prussian state parliament , from 1921 to 1928 also member of the Reichstag , until 1938 at the Frankfurt regional court, then retired
Hugo Lang 1934 1938 Retired in 1938
Gustav Klee September 1, 1938 September 1939/1945 At the beginning of the war in 1939 he was called up as an army judge in the Wehrmacht , where he remained until the end of World War II . The position of the district court president was probably not filled during his absence, but was taken over by a representative.
Felix Lesser August 20, 1945 March 31, 1960 President of the Hessian State Court
Gerhard Otto April 1, 1960 September 30, 1973
Ernst Weigand 1st October 1973 December 31, 1983
Otto Kaestner January 1, 1984 November 30, 2000
Rainer Mössinger December 1, 2000 May 31, 2010
Susanne Wetzel since August 2, 2010

Instance move

The Hanau Regional Court is assigned to the district of the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court. The district courts of Gelnhausen and Hanau now belong to the judicial district . All other local courts previously existing in the district of the Hanau District Court were merged with them. These were originally the 22 local courts:

District Court Seat Explanations
Bergen District Court Bergen (Bergen-Enkheim) became part of the new Bergen-Enkheim District Court on November 7, 1936 . This was shut down on June 15, 1943 and attached to the Frankfurt am Main District Court
District court Bieber Beaver Was dissolved on October 1, 1932 and assigned to the Gelnhausen District Court .
District court Birstein Birstein Was dissolved on October 1, 1932 and assigned to the Wächtersbach district court .
Burghaun District Court Burghaun Was dissolved on October 1, 1932 and divided between the Eiterfeld District Court and the Langenselbold District Court .
District court Eiterfeld Pus field On June 15, 1943 assigned to the Hünfeld District Court and repealed in 1945
District court Fulda Fulda Dissolved on July 1, 1968 and assigned to the Gelnhausen District Court .
District court Gelnhausen Gelnhausen Still exists
Grossenlüder District Court Grossenlüder Was dissolved on October 1, 1932 and assigned to the Fulda District Court .
Hanau District Court Hanau Still exists
Hilders District Court Hilders On June 15, 1944 assigned to the Fulda District Court .
District court Hünfeld Hünfeld On October 1st, 1944 transfer to the regional court of Kassel . From 1949 District Court of Fulda .
Langenselbold District Court Langenselbold Assigned to the Hanau District Court on June 15, 1943 , from 1945 an independent District Court again. Repealed on July 1, 1968.
Meerholz District Court Sea wood Was dissolved on October 1, 1932 and assigned to the Gelnhausen District Court .
District court Neuhof Neuhof Was dissolved on October 1, 1932 and assigned to the Fulda District Court .
District Court Orb Bad Orb 1909 Renamed to Bad Orb District Court . On June 15, 1943 assigned to the Gelnhausen District Court , since autumn 1945 again an independent District Court. Repealed on July 1, 1968.
Salmünster District Court Salmunster On June 15, 1943 assigned to the Schlüchtern district court , since autumn 1945 again an independent district court. Dissolved as of December 31, 2010.
District court Schlüchtern Schluechtern Dissolved on July 1, 1968 and assigned to the Gelnhausen District Court .
Schwarzenfels District Court Schwarzenfels Was dissolved on October 1, 1932 and assigned to the Schlüchtern District Court .
District court Steinau Steinau On June 15, 1943 assigned to the Schlüchtern district court , since autumn 1945 again an independent district court. Repealed on July 1, 1968.
District court Wächtersbach Waechtersbach On June 15, 1943 assigned to the Gelnhausen District Court , since autumn 1945 again an independent District Court.
Weyhers District Court Weyhers Renamed to Gersfeld District Court on June 1, 1933 . On June 15, 1944 assigned to the Fulda District Court .
District Court Windecken Wind corners On June 15, 1946 assigned to the Hanau District Court .

building

Location of the Hanau district court in Hesse
Location of the Hanau district court in Hesse

The justice building in Nussallee houses the regional court and the district court and was occupied on October 13, 1911.

See also

literature

  • Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in the Hanauischen = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 34. Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
  • Otto Kästner: The architecture of German regional courts between 1900 and 1920. Dissertation Frankfurt am Main 2012. urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30: 3-278301
  • Hans Katzer: Liberated from concentration camp. Dr. Felix Lesser - term of office from September 1, 1945 to March 31, 1960 . In: Hanauer Anzeiger of December 31, 2001, p. 8.
  • Felix Lesser : The court system of our homeland in the 19th century and the Hanau district court. In: Hanau city and country. A home book for school and home . Hanau 1954, pp. 181-185.
  • Ulrich Scheuermann: History of the Hanau Regional Court. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2015, pp. 115–145.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich, p. 181.
  2. ↑ Dietrich, p. 250, note 115.
  3. ↑ Lesser, p. 182; Kästner, p. 116.
  4. ↑ Lesser, p. 183.
  5. ↑ On this in detail Lesser, pp. 184f.
  6. ↑ Lesser, p. 184.
  7. ↑ Lesser, p. 185.
  8. ^ Katzer: Concentration Camp .
  9. ^ The information on the district court presidents before 1938 was made available by the Hanau City Archives .
  10. ^ Philipps University of Marburg : Honorary senators of the Philipps University of Marburg .
  11. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv : Dept. 505 Hessian Ministry of Justice No. 527 and Dept. 520 FZ Spruchkammer Frankfurt-Zentral No. 4889.
  12. ↑ Information from the Hessian Main State Archives v. February 24, 2013 (Ref .: 6.1.1.158-0192).
  13. ^ Katzer: Concentration Camp .
  14. ↑ Katzer: Dr. Gerhard Otto . In: Hanauer Anzeiger v. January 2, 2002, p. 22.
  15. ↑ Katzer: With confident negotiation . In: Hanauer Anzeiger v. January 3, 2002, p. 18.
  16. ^ Katzer: Otto Kästner . In: Hanauer Anzeiger v.7. January 2002, p. 15.
  17. ↑ Katzer: Dr. Rainer Mössinger . In: Hanauer Anzeiger v. January 12, 2002, p. 18.
  18. ↑ Structural decisions in the Hessian judiciary  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated June 23, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cop2cop.de  
  19. ↑ Interesting facts from the history of the judiciary in Hanau

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