Mannheim District Court

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The Mannheim Regional Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction in Baden-Württemberg and one of nine regional courts in the district of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court .

Seat and District of the Court

Regional court district Mannheim (dark) in the higher regional court district Karlsruhe (light green) in Baden-Württemberg

The district court has its seat in Mannheim . Apart from the city of Mannheim, most of the former Mannheim district belongs to the judicial district with Altlußheim , Brühl , Heddesheim , Hemsbach , Hirschberg , Hockenheim , Ketsch , Ladenburg , Laudenbach , Neulußheim , Oftersheim , Plankstadt , Reilingen , Schriesheim , Schwetzingen and Weinheim . In 2007, 528,000 people lived in the district.

The Mannheim Regional Court is responsible for civil and criminal matters within its jurisdiction as a court of first instance as well as an appeal and appeals authority. In addition, it has received some competences that go beyond the district. It is responsible for the entire state of Baden-Württemberg in patent , utility model , semiconductor topography and plant variety protection disputes. In the district of the Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe, the responsibility for extending trademark disputes , methods for restraints , copyright litigation and design disputes and economic criminal .

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The Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe is directly superordinate to the court , and the Federal Court of Justice , also in Karlsruhe. The Mannheim , Schwetzingen and Weinheim district courts are subordinate to the Mannheim Regional Court .

history

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Stock exchange

With the relocation of the residence of the Electoral Palatinate from Heidelberg to Mannheim in 1720, the Electoral Palatinate Court Court also moved to the Mannheim Palace , which was the central civil court of the Electoral Palatinate. In 1729 the newly created Higher Appeal Court also took its seat in Mannheim as a revision instance. In 1766 the court moved into the newly built department store .

With the destruction of the Electoral Palatinate, Mannheim fell to Baden , which the Badischer Oberhofgericht moved to Bruchsal in 1803 . At the urging of the Mannheimers and with the consent of the President of the Court of Justice Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich Drais von Sauerbronn , it moved to Mannheim in 1810. The court courts were subordinate to the upper court, one of which had its seat in Mannheim since 1803. Both courts negotiated the murder of August von Kotzebue by Karl Ludwig Sand .

After the Baden Revolution of 1848/49, the court system was reformed and jury courts were established. The Mannheim jury court met from 1851 at the seat of the court in the department store. In 1864 the Mannheim court was converted into a district and court court. It was responsible for the districts of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Mosbach as well as the Rhine navigation supreme court for the whole of Baden.

The establishment of the German Empire in 1871 was followed by a comprehensive restructuring of the judiciary in Baden. The upper court had to hand over jurisdiction to the realm higher commercial court in Leipzig and was completely dissolved in 1879. The newly established Higher Regional Court , which was now the highest court in Baden, was no longer located in Mannheim, but in Karlsruhe. The district and court court became a regional court in the same year and was responsible for the district court districts of Mannheim, Heidelberg, Schwetzingen, Weinheim, Sinsheim and Wiesloch. In 1899 the district court of Heidelberg was founded, with which the district court district of Mannheim took its current borders.

Nathan Stein became President of the Regional Court in 1914, the first Jew in the German Reich, and served until 1925. From 1925 to 1930, Franz Schlimm was President of the Regional Court, who, as public prosecutor for Baden , had solved the murder of Matthias Erzberger . He was followed by Heinrich Wetzlar , who resigned from office in 1933: in 1933/35, eight Jewish judges, including President Heinrich Wetzlar, were dismissed with the law to restore the civil service , of whom only three survived the persecution of National Socialism . In 1933, the Nazis directed it for quite Baden competent Special Court Mannheim one because the Badische Ministry of Justice was of the opinion that in the working-class city of Mannheim, stronghold of the Social Democrats and Communists in Baden, most cases would occur for trial.

After the Second World War, the district court in badly damaged Mannheim was initially housed in the old stock exchange building and then again in the palace from 1953. In 1970 it was given its own building in square A1. In 1971 the commercial criminal chamber was set up with jurisdiction over the entire district of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court. For example, the cases of Imhausen (export for a poison gas plant in Libya), Graf (tax evasion) and Flowtex (billions in fraud with drilling machines) were negotiated before her . In 2010 and 2011, the Kachelmann trial was heard before the Grand Criminal Chamber .

Courthouse

The building was planned by Helmut Striffler and handed over to its intended use in 1970. The cubic four-story block rises as a four-wing complex with a covered inner courtyard where the courtrooms are located. The upper two floors are clad in rust-brown COR-TEN steel , which will rust over the years and create the illusion of a wooden facade. The rooms on the lower two floors face outwards, while the upper two floors face the interior.

In the foyer there are panel paintings by the artist Rudi Baerwind and a picture tree created by Hubertus von Pilgrim , which is made up of 29 copper panels . The enlargements come from roughly rasterized photos by Robert Häusser .

Lawyers who worked at the Mannheim Regional Court

See also

literature

  • Holger Radke, Günter Zöbeley: The courts in the district court district of Mannheim (PDF; 755 kB) . In: Michael Lotz (Red.), Werner Münchbach (Hrsg.): Festschrift 200 years Badisches Oberhofgericht - Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe . Heidelberg 2003.
  • Harald Stockert: Mannheim as the “residence of law” . In: City of Mannheim, Michael Caroli, Ulrich Nieß (eds.): History of the city of Mannheim: Bd 2 1801-1914 . Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-471-5 .
  • Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .

Web links

Commons : District Court Mannheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Mannheim District Court  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Kaiser: The district of Mannheim under National Socialism . Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-932102-20-2 , p. 175.
  2. ↑ MARCHIVUM: Chronicle star . May 29, 1970. Retrieved September 29, 2018 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 6.2 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 47.1 ″  E