Metz District Court
From 1871 to 1918, the Metz regional court was one of six German regional courts in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine with its seat in Metz .
history
Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
After the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by the German Reich in 1871, the court structure was re-regulated with the law on the amendment of the court constitution of July 14, 1871 and the implementing provisions for this from the same day. The existing arrondissement courts were repealed and regional courts established as courts of second instance. The Metz Regional Court was subordinate to the Colmar Higher Regional Court . The regional court district comprised the districts of the arrondissement courts Diedenhofen and Metz with the exception of the canton Falkenberg , the German parts of the arrondissement court district of Briey and the cantons of Château-Salins , Dieuze and Vic from the district of the district court of Château-Salins .
A jury court was set up at the regional court of Metz, which was responsible for the regional court districts of Metz and Saargemünd .
On October 1, 1879, the changes to the Courts Constitution Act came into force. The entrance courts, which had been called the Friedensgericht in France , were now uniformly incorporated into local courts in the empire .
The following district courts were subordinate to the regional court:
Source see
In 1880 the court had a president, two directors and ten judges and was responsible for about 266,000 residents.
With the reannexion of Alsace-Lorraine by France after the First World War in 1918, the French judicial organization was reintroduced.
German occupation 1940–1944
After the conquest of Alsace and Lorraine in the summer of 1940, a German civil administration was set up in the German part of Lorraine from 1871 to 1918, territorially identical to the French department of Moselle, under the CdZ Josef Bürckel , whereby the court structure was essentially based on the structures of 1918 . The previous cantonal courts were converted into local courts , the previous first instance courts into regional courts . The regional court of Metz was subordinate to the higher regional court Senate Metz, which was located at the regional court of Metz itself. The district court of Diedenhofen was separated from the district court of Metz and comprised the district court districts of Deutschoth , Diedenhofen , Hayingen / Westmark and Sierck .
From November 1, 1941, the German Courts Constitution Act and the Code of Civil Procedure also applied in Alsace and Lorraine . The areas that were subject to a CdZ were treated as imperial territory , but not annexed and therefore formally did not belong to the empire. The Westmark , which comprised the old Reich territory and, with the Lorraine part, also French territory , was administered uniformly, but continued to be formally divided into the actual territory of the Reich (Saarland / Land Bavaria) and the CdZ region of Lorraine.
At the end of 1944, the German occupation collapsed with the advance of the Allies. The old judicial organization was restored.
literature
- Carl Pfaffenroth: Yearbook of the German Court Constitution, 1880, p. 416, online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Law on the amendment of the court constitution of July 14, 1871, Official Gazette for Alsace-Lorraine No. 5, 1871, pp. 165 ff., Online
- ↑ Ordinance on the implementation of the law, regarding the amendment of the court constitution of July 14, 1871, Law Gazette for Alsace-Lorraine No. 5, 1871, p. 169 ff.
- ↑ 1880
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. olg_colmar.html # lgzabern. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Heinz Boberach, Rolf Thommes, Hermann Weiß, Werner Röder, Christoph Weisz (eds.): Offices, abbreviations, actions of the Nazi state. Handbook for the use of sources from the National Socialist era. Official titles, ranks and administrative divisions, abbreviations and non-military code names De Gruyter, 1997, p. 175. ISBN 978-3-598-11271-3 .
- ↑ In detail on Westmark, also as an ideological construct by scientists from Western research : Annexion et nazification en Europe: Actes du colloque de METZ, 7–8 November 2003 ( Memento of 7 October 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, French; 6 , 7 MB). In addition to the NS administrative unit ( Party Gau of the NSDAP) , the Westmark should then also include Luxembourg and East Belgium as Reichsgau .
