Münsingen District Court

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The Münsingen District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and is one of the seven district courts in the district of the Tübingen Regional Court in the southwest German state of Baden-Württemberg .

Jurisdiction and seat

The district court is responsible for all civil and criminal matters of first instance.

In addition to Münsingen itself, the judicial district of the Münsingen District Court includes the towns and communities of Engstingen , Gomadingen , Hayingen , Hohenstein , Mehrstetten , Pfronstetten , Trochtelfingen and Zwiefalten .

The Tübingen District Court is responsible for insolvency matters. Foreclosure matters are carried out at the Reutlingen District Court , as are family matters . The trade , cooperative and partnership registers are kept at the Stuttgart District Court .

The Tübingen Regional Court is superordinate to the Münsingen District Court. The competent higher regional court is the higher regional court in Stuttgart . The responsible public prosecutor is the Tübingen public prosecutor .

building

The court is located in Schloßhof 3 in 72525 Münsingen.

Public response

Between 1983 and 1985, the Münsingen district court hit the headlines in the national media as well, when activists of the peace movement negotiated a wave of lawsuits with around 300 coercion proceedings as a result of a one-week sit-down at the Golf nuclear weapons camp near the Eberhard Finckh barracks near Großengstingen in 1982 . Among them was the singer-songwriter Thomas Felder, who was born in Hundersingen (today a district of Münsingens) and was a candidate for mayor in 1997 . The participants in the blockade had objected to the penalty orders issued , which resulted in the dragging court hearings in Münsingen, chaired by the then acting judge Thomas Rainer.

The blockers were sentenced to pay a fine of between 20 and 40 daily rates for coercion under Section 240 StGB . After going through several judicial instances up to the Federal Court of Justice , the interpretation of the law was finally modified by the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) in 1995 due to various constitutional complaints - about 14 years after the sit-ins at the Eberhard Finckh barracks began . " The interpretation of the term violence in § 240 Abs. 1 SCC by the judgments [contrary] to Art. 103 , para. 2 GG . “So the constitutional judges in their judgment. In the specific case of sit-ins so that the criminality of the act in the context of whether certainty principle of Art. 103 2 of the Basic Law. Not given because a reprehensible nature of funds in connection with the proportionality of the punishment indefinitely so questionable, and the overstretching of the concept of violence in § 240 StGB, based on the form of sit-in blockades used in Engstingen, is ultimately unconstitutional .

The Federal Court of Justice then overturned the judgments originally issued by the Münsingen District Court against the blockers of the Golf nuclear weapons storage facility. The fines already paid were reimbursed when a retrial was applied for .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ District Court of Münsingen, April 12, 2012
  2. ↑ Responsibilities local and Court Register, April 12, 2012
  3. ↑ Example of a penal order for participating in the blockade of the special ammunition camp Golf (digitized document as PDF file; 185 kB)
  4. ↑ Press coverage of the criminal trials against the blockers of the Gulf nuclear weapons camp, as examples articles from the Frankfurter Rundschau and the TAZ (PDF file; 176 kB)
  5. ↑ a b BVerfG, decision of January 10, 1995, Az. 1 BvR 718/89 u. a., BVerfGE 92, 1 - Sit Blockades II.
  6. ↑ Topic “legal aftermath” (for the blockade week in front of the Golf nuclear weapons storage facility in 1982) on the website of the Institute for Peace Education in Tübingen

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Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 46.7 ″  E