Higher Regional Court of Celle

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The historic courthouse (2013)

The Higher Regional Court of Celle ( OLG Celle for short ) is one of three higher regional courts in the state of Lower Saxony , along with the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court and the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court .

Seat and District of the Court

The court has its seat in Celle . The district of the Higher Regional Court of Celle is the largest of the three Lower Saxony Higher Regional Court districts. Around 4.1 million people live in its catchment area. The OLG district of Celle includes six regional court districts with a total of 41 district court districts. The district courts Bückeburg , Hannover , Hildesheim , Lüneburg , Stade and Verden as well as the (unassigned respect the authority of the Hanover Regional Court) Hanover court headed by a President, the other forty local courts by a Director.

The courts in the higher regional court district of Celle employ around 4,000 people and around 800 judges. At the Higher Regional Court are 5,860 lawyers and general counsel attorneys admitted (as at 1st January 2018).

At the Higher Regional Court of Celle itself, around ninety judges are active in the civil and criminal panels. In addition, 180 employees do their job at the Higher Regional Court.

Courthouse

The "high-rise", built in 1960

The Higher Regional Court - like the Public Prosecutor's Office - is housed in the historic courthouse on Schloßplatz, which was built from 1840 to 1843. This building turned out to be too small after World War II . That is why it was expanded in 1960 by the addition known as the "high-rise". In 1985, a two-story extension was added, which connects the historic buildings on Kanzleistraße and the high-rise building and offers additional hall space, office space and public areas.

history

The history of the Higher Regional Court of Celle goes back to 1711. After the House of Guelph , the electoral office had received, whose territory was under the Electorate of Brunswick-Luneburg no longer the jurisdiction of the imperial courts, but it had its own supreme court to be built. Paul von Püchler and the director of the law firm in Celle, Weipart Ludwig von Fabrice , were commissioned with the establishment in 1707 ; von Fabrice was appointed the first president of the new court in 1708. This higher appeal court was established in 1711 and had its seat in Celle.

In September 1810, the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . As part of the judiciary in the Kingdom of Westphalia , the Higher Appeal Court was converted into the Celle Court of Appeal . President was Friedrich Karl von Strombeck . After the collapse of the Kingdom of Westphalia, the Higher Appeal Court was restored.

Plaque in the main staircase for the First World War fallen under the heading " et decorum est pro patria mori Dulce "

After the defeat of the Kingdom of Hanover, which was allied with Austria, in the war of 1866, the court initially became one of the appellate courts of the Prussian state, but after the establishment of the empire in 1871 it received the rank of higher regional court. The court maintained this position during the Weimar Republic and after the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933.

The Celle court had been the highest instance of ordinary jurisdiction for the state of Lippe since 1857, which did not have its own higher regional court or appellate court. A Lippisch-Prussian state treaty of January 4, 1879 renewed this bond and at the same time raised the court in Detmold to the district court of Detmold ; the Prussian higher regional court in Celle acted as higher regional court for Lippe until 1944.

During the Second World War, the judicial district of the Higher Regional Court of Celle was reduced in size in favor of the Higher Regional Court districts of Oldenburg and Hamm . In 1998 the district of the Göttingen Regional Court was also transferred to the jurisdiction of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court ; Nevertheless, Celle remained the largest of the Lower Saxony higher regional court districts.

In October 2011 the 300th anniversary of the court was celebrated with a ceremony with the Lower Saxony Minister of Justice Bernd Busemann .

President of the Court since 1931

Known cases

Superordinate and subordinate courts

The higher regional court of Celle is the Federal Court of Justice . The regional courts in Bückeburg , Hanover , Hildesheim , Lüneburg , Stade and Verden as well as the local courts subordinate to these courts are directly subordinate to the court .

Attorney General

The Public Prosecutor General of Celle is also located at the OLG Celle . The first attorney general for Lower Saxony was Senate President Dagobert Moericke , who was active from 1936 to 1945 .

Following the appointment of Harald Range as Attorney General , Jörg Fröhlich has been acting as head of the department since November 2011. The current attorney general is Frank Lüttig .

See also

Literature (selection)

  • Harald Franzki (Ed.): Festschrift for the 275th anniversary of the Higher Regional Court of Celle , Celle, 1986.
  • Renate Kant: The Prince and Regent Gallery in the Higher Regional Court of Celle , in: Hans-Herbert Möller (Hrsg.): Restoration of cultural monuments. Examples from the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony (= reports on preservation of monuments , supplement 2), Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Hameln: Niemeyer, 1989, ISBN 3-87585-152-8 , pp. 269-272
  • Hinrich Rüping : Public prosecutors and party comrades. Attitudes of the judiciary towards the National Socialist past between 1945 and 1949 in the Celle district , Nomos 1994
  • Stefan Andreas Stodolkowitz: The higher appeal court of Celle and its case law in the 18th century (Volume 59 of sources and research on the highest jurisdiction in the Old Kingdom). Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar, 2011, ISBN 978-3-4122-0792-2 ; Digitized version from GoogleBooks , accessed on January 14, 2015
  • Peter Götz von Olenhusen (Ed.): 300 years of the Higher Regional Court of Celle. Festschrift for the 300th anniversary on October 14, 2011 , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-10562-7 ; Reading excerpt as a PDF document , last accessed on April 7, 2013
    • In it by Hinrich Rüping: Judicial policy in Celle under British occupation , pp. 99–110
  • Special supplement as a PDF document in the Cellesche Zeitung dated October 8, 2011, last accessed on April 7, 2013
  • Anne-Kathrin Fricke-Hellberg (text editor) a. a .: 300 years of the Higher Regional Court of Celle - the restoration of the plenary hall , in the series of workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , issue 38, and small writings on the history of the city of Celle , volume 11, ed. from the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation , Hameln: Niemeyer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8271-8038-4
  • Rainer Schröder: "... but in civil law the judges remained steadfast!" The judgments of the OLG Celle from the Third Reich (with a bibliography), 1st edition, in the series Fundamenta juridica , Volume 5, 1988, ISBN 3- 7890-1562-8

Web links

Commons : Oberlandesgericht Celle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the OLG Celle: Higher Regional Court District Celle , accessed on October 14, 2011.
  2. ↑ Federal Bar Association, www.brak.de: Large membership statistics as of January 1, 2018. (PDF; 37.3 kB) Accessed September 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b HAZ : Busemann honors the OLG Celle as a figurehead , accessed on October 14, 2011.
  4. ↑ (1640–1724) according to NDB Volume 4, p. 730.
  5. ↑ Chronicle on the Detmold Regional Court website (PDF; 26.2 kB).
  6. ↑ Deutschlandfunk: The trial in Celle, Preacher Without a Face , accessed on October 1, 2019
  7. ↑ Press release of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Celle from January 13, 2012 , accessed on January 29, 2012.
  8. ↑ Homepage of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Celle. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; accessed on April 17, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 30.5 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 46.3 ″  E