District Court of Lübeck

Seat of the Lübeck Regional Court until 2015 in the court house in the street “ Am Burgfeld ”. The building is expected to be renovated by 2020 and the court will use an interim property on Schwartauer Landstrasse.

The Lübeck Regional Court is one of four regional courts in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and therefore part of the Schleswig-Holstein ordinary jurisdiction . It was built in October 1879 as part of the imperial justice reform . Karl Hoppenstedt was the first president and for more than 31 years the highest judge in the city of Lübeck .

Seat and District of the Court

Location of the regional courts in the respective judicial districts in Schleswig-Holstein

LG Flensburg

LG Itzehoe

LG Kiel

LG Lübeck

The seat of the court is the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

The judicial district includes the districts of the subordinate district courts of Ahrensburg , Eutin , Lübeck , Oldenburg in Holstein , Ratzeburg , Reinbek and Schwarzenbek . The judicial district thus consists of the districts of the Duchy of Lauenburg , Ostholstein and Stormarn (excluding the community Tangstedt , which belongs to the district court district of Kiel ) and the independent city of Lübeck. Around 830,000 people live in the district. It is around 3,600 km ^{2 in} size.

Superordinate and subordinate courts

The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court (in Hamburg ) was superordinate to the Lübeck Regional Court from 1879 to 1937 , followed by the Kiel Higher Regional Court . Since 1948 the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court has been superordinate in Schleswig . Today (2014) the district courts of Ahrensburg , Eutin , Oldenburg in Holstein , Ratzeburg , Reinbek and Schwarzenbek are subordinate . The Lübeck district court is subordinate to the regional court, but as a presidential court it is independent in its administration.

Public prosecutor

A public prosecutor's office is assigned to the Lübeck Regional Court . It reports to the public prosecutor's office at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court in Schleswig. Your office building is at Travemünder Allee 9 . Well-known first and leading senior public prosecutors of the Lübeck authority were Arthur Gustav Kulenkamp and Ernst Christian Johannes Schön (1892–1895), who later also became mayors of Lübeck . After the First World War , the Lübeck Senator Cay Diedrich Lienau was after his resignation from the Senate from 1921 to 1932 First Public Prosecutor as the successor to Johannes Daniel Benda (1903-1920). Even before the loss of statehood in 1937 by the Greater Hamburg Act and the inclusion of Prussia lost Lübeck its judicial sovereignty as all other countries in the year 1935 by the DC circuit of Justice to the Reich.

Lawyers at the Lübeck Regional Court

Since the establishment of the regional court in 1879, due to the sovereignty of the state of Lübeck until the 1930s, a change between the executive and judiciary was possible without any problems. Many members of the court can be found among the members of the citizenship and senate. For example , Johann Martin Andreas Neumann , who was elected mayor in 1921 , had been a judge at the Lübeck Regional Court since 1894.

Past presidents of the court have been

Karl Hoppenstedt (1880–1910) - a bust created by the sculptor Fritz Behn is in the hallway of the session wing of the court house.
Richard Oemler (1913-1930)
Karl Utermarck (1931–1932)
Clemens von Jagow (1956–1968)

Another judge from 1981 to 2001 was Wolfgang Nešković , who was elected judge at the Federal Court of Justice in 2001 and was a member of the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2013 .

The President of the Regional Court is Ole Krönert, 1st Vice-President Hartmut Schneider.

Known procedures

Marienkirchen art forgery trial against Lothar Malskat , 1955
Trial of Arwed Imiela
Submission to the cannabis decision of the Federal Constitutional Court
Calmette process for the "Lübeck vaccination accident"
Trial against Christian Bogner
The death sentences imposed after the battle for the Polish post office in Danzig are lifted
Proceedings against Marianne Bachmeier
Blocking of wikipedia.de by Lutz Heilmann on November 13, 2008. The German Internet address "wikipedia.de" may not forward to the international domain "de.wikipedia.org" as long as "specified under the Internet address de.wikipedia.org" Statements about Lutz Heilmann are held up. "