Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg

Ostbau Justice Palace Nuremberg

Palace of Justice, view from the southeast (2017)

The Nuremberg Higher Regional Court ( OLG Nuremberg for short ) is one of three Bavarian Higher Regional Courts , along with the Bamberg Higher Regional Court and the Munich Higher Regional Court .

Seat and District of the Court

The seat of the higher regional court is in Nuremberg ; the district of the court includes the administrative districts of Middle Franconia , Upper Palatinate and the parts of Lower Bavaria belonging to the regional court district of Regensburg .

At the Higher Regional Court are 4,716 lawyers and general counsel attorneys admitted (as at 1st January 2018).

Courthouse

Together with the Regional Court of Nuremberg-Fürth and the District Court of Nuremberg , the OLG is  housed in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice at Fürther Straße 110. The Nuremberg Trials took place in this building complex after the Second World War .

Superordinate and subordinate courts

The higher regional court of Nuremberg is the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe . Subordinate are the regional courts in Amberg , Ansbach , Nürnberg-Fürth , Regensburg and Weiden .

management

At the head of the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg is its president. This office has been held by Thomas Dickert since April 1, 2018 .

Former higher regional court presidents

• Georg Ritter von Guggenberger (1915-1919)
• Otto Ziegler (1919–1927)
• Matthias Hahn (1928–1932)
• Friedrich Burkhardt (1933)
• Otto Bertram (1933–1937)
• Friedrich Döbig (1937–1943), then President of the Senate at the Reichsgericht until 1945 and, after a denazification break, again until 1948 as a judge and from 1949 President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court in Nuremberg
• Ernst Emmert (1943–1945), temporarily represented by Emil Bems since September 1944
• Peter Küspert (2011–2015), then President of the Munich Higher Regional Court and the Bavarian Constitutional Court .
• Christoph Strötz (2015-2018).

history

In 1871 the Nuremberg Court of Appeal was set up in the Kingdom of Bavaria . The appeals courts ruled in senates with five members each. In 1873 the appellate courts for Upper Palatinate and Middle Franconia were combined in Nuremberg. The Amberg appellate court was thus dissolved and its tasks assigned to the one in Nuremberg. In 1879, the Nuremberg Court of Appeal was converted into a higher regional court when the German Courts Constitution Act came into force.

A selection of known processes

• Gustl Mollath's retrial

Well-known judges in selection

• Dieter Hesselberger , judge at the BGH, judge at the Higher Regional Court Nuremberg from 1979 to 1985
• Volker Emmerich , emeritus full professor at the University of Bayreuth
• Mathias Rohe

Material responsibilities and internal organization

Administration of justice

The Nuremberg Higher Regional Court is primarily responsible for legal remedies in civil and criminal matters in the area of ​​ordinary jurisdiction. The responsibility for legal remedies in the area of voluntary jurisdiction lies with the OLG Munich for the entire Free State of Bavaria.

There are a total of 21 senates at the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court:

• 11 Civil Senate Cartel Senate
• 4 civil senates and senates for family matters
• 2 criminal panels (one of which is also a fine panel)
• 1 Fideikommisssenat
• 1 Senate for building land matters
• 1 Senate for tax consultant and tax agent matters
• 1 Reparation Senate

The Nuremberg Higher Regional Court is also the higher shipping court for the shipping courts in the Free State of Bavaria.

HR management

With regard to judges and civil servants, the Higher Regional Court is the personnel-managing authority of all subordinate courts and speaks out in favor of these appointments, promotions and disciplinary measures.

electronic data processing

At the end of February 2016, as part of Finance Minister Markus Söder's home strategy, the “Joint Information Technology Office of the Bavarian Justice” was released from the jurisdiction of the Munich Higher Regional Court and subordinated to the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court. The headquarters of the authority was relocated to Amberg and its name was changed to "IT Service Center of the Bavarian Justice". In IT matters, she oversees the judicial authorities in all three OLG districts, including the local public prosecutor's offices. Only the Landesjustizkasse in Bamberg, the central dunning court in Coburg and the penal institutions are excluded.

See also

• List of German courts
• List of courts in the Free State of Bavaria

Web links

• Internet presence of the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court
• Overview of the jurisdiction of the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Bar Association, www.brak.de: Large membership statistics as of January 1, 2018. (PDF; 37.3 kB) Accessed September 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ IMT
3. ↑ Bavarian State Government : Bavarian Cabinet appoints Ministerialdirigenten Dr. Thomas Dickert as President of the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court with effect from April 1, 2018 . Press release from December 6, 2017; accessed on June 7, 2018
4. ^ Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich 1933-1940. Adaptation and submission in the Gürtner era (= sources and representations on contemporary history . Volume 28). 3rd edition, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-53833-0 , p. 1213 (online) .
5. ↑ OLG President Küspert goes to Munich , Mittelbayerische Zeitung from November 25, 2014.
6. ↑ Bavarian Legal and Administrative Report of November 25, 2014.
7. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of Bavarian Offices, Municipalities and Courts 1799 - 1980, 1983, ISBN 3406096697 , pp. 117-118, 605

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '17 "  N , 11 ° 2' 47"  E