Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
State level	North Rhine-Westphalia
position	Supreme state authority
founding	1946
Headquarters	Dusseldorf
Authority management	Peter Biesenbach ( CDU ), Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia
Web presence	http://www.jm.nrw.de/

Historical logo of the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia

Former building of the Düsseldorf Regional Court ; today the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice on Martin-Luther-Platz (built in 1859)

Minister Peter Biesenbach

The Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (also Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ) is the Ministry of Justice of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and one of ten ministries of the North Rhine-Westphalian state administration.

In 1998 it was merged with the Ministry of the Interior . After the Constitutional Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ruled on February 9, 1999 that the amalgamation of the interior and justice departments into one ministry was unconstitutional, this was reversed in March 1999.

The ministry has its headquarters at Martin-Luther-Platz 40 in Düsseldorf city center . Minister of Justice Peter Biesenbach ( CDU ) has been Minister of Justice in the Laschet cabinet since June 30, 2017 .

Organization and tasks

The ministry is divided into seven departments:

• Department Z: Human Resources and Law
• Department I: budget, real estate, organization
• IT department: information technology
• Department II: Public Law and Civil Law , International Affairs
• Division III: Criminal Justice
• Department IV: Prison
• Department V: Basic and advanced training of judicial staff, legal training, recruiting

The State Judicial Examination Office is affiliated to the ministry.

Minister since 1946

No.	Surname	Life dates	Political party	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires	Cabinet (s)
Justice Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
1	Eduard Kremer	1881-1948	independent	August 29, 1946	December 5, 1946	Amelunxes I
2	Artur Strater	1902-1977	CDU	December 5, 1946	June 17, 1947	Amelunxen II
3	Gustav Heinemann	1899-1976	CDU	June 17, 1947	September 7, 1948	Arnold I
4th	Artur Strater	1902-1977	CDU	September 7, 1948	September 15, 1950	Arnold I
5	Rudolf Amelunxen	1888-1969	center	September 15, 1950	July 24, 1958	Arnold II Arnold III Steinhoff
6th	Otto Flehinghaus	1904-1987	CDU	July 24, 1958	July 26, 1962	Meyers I
7th	Artur Strater	1902-1977	CDU	July 26, 1962	July 26, 1966	Meyers II
8th	Franz Meyers	1908-2002	CDU	July 26, 1966	5th October 1966	Meyers III
9	Friedrich Vogel	1929-2005	CDU	5th October 1966	December 8, 1966	Meyers III
10	Josef Neuberger	1902-1977	SPD	December 8, 1966	September 12, 1972	Kühn I Kühn II
11	Diether Posser	1922-2010	SPD	September 12, 1972	February 9, 1978	Kühn II Kühn III
12	Inge Donnepp	1918-2002	SPD	February 9, 1978	December 14, 1983	Kühn III Rau I Rau II
13	Dieter Haak	1938-2012	SPD	December 14, 1983	5th June 1985	Rau II
14th	Rolf Krumsiek	1934-2009	SPD	5th June 1985	July 17, 1995	Rau III Rau IV
15th	Fritz Behrens	* 1948	SPD	July 17, 1995	June 9, 1998	Rau V
Minister of the Interior and Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
15th	Fritz Behrens	* 1948	SPD	June 9, 1998	March 1, 1999	Clement I
Justice Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
16	Reinhard Rauball	* 1946	SPD	March 1, 1999	March 23, 1999	Clement I
17th	Jochen Dieckmann	* 1947	SPD	March 23, 1999	November 12, 2002	Clement I Clement II
18th	Wolfgang Gerhards	* 1949	SPD	November 12, 2002	June 24, 2005	Steinbrück
19th	Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter	* 1950	CDU	June 24, 2005	July 15, 2010	Rüttgers
20th	Thomas Kutschaty	* 1968	SPD	July 15, 2010	June 30, 2017	Force I Force II
21st	Peter Biesenbach	* 1948	CDU	June 30, 2017	officiating	Lash

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VerfGH NW, judgment of February 9, 1999, VerfGH 11/98 (PDF) , accessed on September 14, 2019
2. ↑ Organization plan , as of August 2019 (PDF) , accessed on September 14, 2019