Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig

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The courthouse at Bankplatz

The Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig (short OLG Braunschweig ) in addition to the higher regional courts Celle and Oldenburg is one of three regional courts in the country Lower Saxony . It is based in Braunschweig . Of these three higher regional courts, Braunschweig has the smallest district.

history

"The Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig traces its tradition back to the court court established in 1557 in the old Brunswick residence Wolfenbüttel, whose jurisdiction partially overlapped with that of the law firm that existed next to it." The former OLG President Wassermann reported in the 1989 festschrift for the court , a survey of the OLG presidents from 1986 showed that only the higher court in Berlin, which was first mentioned in a document in 1468, could look back on an older history.

The building of the regional court in Münzstraße used to be the seat of the OLG. Today there are still individual senates of the OLG

It has existed as a higher regional court since October 1, 1879. On this day, the Reich Justice Acts came into force and replaced the previously independent court system of the Duchy of Braunschweig , under which the higher court for the Duchy still had its seat in Wolfenbüttel . The Braunschweig Higher Regional Court then took its place. Initially, the district court of Braunschweig and the district court of Holzminden belonged to the district of the OLG Braunschweig . However, the regional court in Holzminden was dissolved in 1890 due to inefficiency. Its local courts were initially transferred to the district of the Braunschweig Regional Court. After 1945, discussions arose as to whether the OLG Braunschweig should be dissolved as the smallest OLG in Lower Saxony. At the end of a controversial discussion, on January 1, 1998 the entire district of the Göttingen Regional Court was transferred from the Celle Higher Regional Court to the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court. An attempt by the Celle lawyers to stop the law with a constitutional complaint failed.

Courthouse

Badge on the building

The OLG Braunschweig has been located in the building complex Bankplatz 6 / Steinstrasse since 1974. 1 in Braunschweig. It was previously located in the district court building on Münzstrasse. The land had acquired the building on Bankplatz from the Norddeutsche Landesbank for two million DM. It is a property of the former Braunschweigische Bank . The brick building in the style of an Italian palazzo with echoes of the Renaissance was built in 1853 by the architect Friedrich Louis Simon , a student of Schinkel .

Once the general renovation has been completed, probably by the beginning of 2022, the OLG Braunschweig will move into the listed building of the former Braunschweig district government between Bohlweg , Hagenscharrn and Ruhfäutchenplatz.

Judicial district

With the reorganization of 1998, the number of court residents in the OLG district was increased by 50% to around 1.5 million. Today it includes the Braunschweig Regional Court and the Göttingen Regional Court . At the Higher Regional Court are 1,686 lawyers and general counsel attorneys admitted (as at 1st January 2018).

President

Public prosecutor

The set up at the Court of Appeal Attorney General's Office are analogous to the court structure, the prosecutor's offices subordinate to the District Courts of Braunschweig and Göttingen. From 1961 to 2008, the central registration office of the state judicial administrations in Salzgitter belonged to the authority .

Attorneys General (until 1918 Chief Public Prosecutors) were

  • Wilhelm Herzog (1813–1892), Chief Public Prosecutor from 1879 to 1891
  • Carl Koch (1821–1894), Chief Public Prosecutor from 1891 to 1894
  • Robert Sommer (1837–1904), Chief Public Prosecutor from 1895 to 1898
  • Otto Buchheister (1830–1910), senior public prosecutor from 1898 to 1905
  • Otto Meyer (1855–1908), senior public prosecutor from 1906 to 1908
  • Wilhelm Holland (1865–1954), Chief Public Prosecutor from 1909 to 1930
  • Richard Herbst (1872–1965), Attorney General 1931
  • Kurt Trinks (1882–1958), Attorney General from 1931 to 1932
  • Paul Koch (1879–1959), Attorney General from 1932 to 1933
  • Heinrich Müller (1897–1941), Attorney General from 1933 to 1941
  • Willy Rahmel (1882–1971), Attorney General from 1942 to 1943
  • Werner Meißner (1882–1962), Attorney General from 1944 to 1945
  • Curt Staff (1901–1976), Attorney General from 1945 to 1947
  • Fritz Bauer (1903–1968), Attorney General from 1950 to 1956, personally represented the indictment in the Remer trial
  • Gerhard Mützelburg (* 1911), Attorney General from 1956 to 1974
  • Heinrich Kintzi (1931–2015), Attorney General from 1974 to 1997
  • Jürgen Dehn , Attorney General from 1998 to 2004
  • Norbert Wolf (* 1953), Attorney General since 2004

literature

  • Rudolf Wassermann (ed.): Justice in the course of time: Festschrift of the higher regional court Braunschweig . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-926701-07-2 .
  • Edgar Isermann, Michael Schlüter (Ed.): Justice and Lawyers in Braunschweig 1879-2004. 125 years of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court and Bar Association . Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-926701-62-5 . (Review on this by Werner Schubert in the journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History German Department 123 (2006), pp. 815–816.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Wassermann : On the history of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court. In: Rudolf Wassermann (Hrsg.): Justice in the course of time: Festschrift des Oberlandesgericht Braunschweig . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-926701-07-2 , pp. 11-110 (p. 12).
  2. ↑ Federal Bar Association, www.brak.de: Large membership statistics as of January 1, 2018. (PDF; 37.3 kB) Accessed September 5, 2018 .

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