Saarland Higher Regional Court

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Buildings of the Saarland Higher Regional Court and the Saarbrücken Regional Court

The Saarland Higher Regional Court is the supreme court of the ordinary jurisdiction of the Saarland .

Seat and District of the Court

The higher regional court (OLG) has its seat in the state capital Saarbrücken .

The judicial district covers the entire territory of the country . It thus covers an area of ​​around 2571  km 2 with a population of around 995,000 (as of September 30, 2017).

At the Higher Regional Court are 1,423 lawyers and general counsel attorneys admitted (as at 1st January 2018).

Courthouse

The Saarland Higher Regional Court is housed together with the Saarbrücken Regional Court in the property at Franz-Josef-Röder-Straße 15 . This is a prestigious building that was built specifically for the seat of the court and construction began in 1911.

Superordinate and subordinate courts

As the higher regional court, only the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe is superior to the court . Subordinate in the instance are, as the only regional court of the judicial district, the Saarbrücken regional court and the subordinate local courts .

management

The head of the Higher Regional Court is incumbent on its President Margot Burmeister.

history

The Higher Regional Court responsible for the Prussian part of today's Saarland was the Higher Regional Court of Cologne until the end of the First World War, and the Higher Regional Court of Zweibrücken for the Bavarian-Palatinate part . At the time of the Saar area under the French League of Nations mandate , there was the Supreme Court in Saarlouis from 1921 to 1935 . From 1938, the Zweibrücken Higher Regional Court was also superordinate to the Saarbrücken Regional Court (i.e. the former Prussian part).

After the Saarland was established by the French occupying forces , the Higher Regional Court in Saarbrücken was established on August 9, 1946 and opened on October 24, 1946.

Until the Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany in 1956/57, a French-Saarland “mixed Senate” was set up at the Saarland Higher Regional Court, which was responsible for all cases in which French law was to be applied due to the economic connection . This consisted of five judges, three of whom were French - including the chairman. The indictment before him was represented by French public prosecutors who were subordinate to a French public prosecutor at the Saarland Higher Regional Court. At the request of the French Public Prosecutor General, the mixed Senate was able to declare itself responsible and thus declare that the respective (purely) Saarland Senate was not responsible. The mixed Senate proceeded according to French procedural law , its judgments were written in French and were issued “in the name of the French people and the people of Saarland”. An appeal to the French Court of Cassation was permitted against them . Charges in criminal proceedings against French officials or soldiers deployed in Saarland could only be brought by French public prosecutors. The procedure took place in the case of crimes (crimes) in the first instance, otherwise on appeal before the mixed Senate of the Saarland Higher Regional Court held, was for the French Code of Criminal Procedure.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ § 1 half. 2 of Act No. 1003 on the Organization of the Ordinary Courts in Saarland (SGerOG) of October 23, 1974, ABl. 1974, p. 1003 .
  2. ↑ § 1 half. 1 SGerOG.
  3. ↑ Area and population. (PDF; 97 kB) Saarland Statistical Office , September 30, 2017, accessed on September 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Federal Bar Association, www.brak.de: Large membership statistics as of January 1, 2018. (PDF; 37.3 kB) Accessed September 5, 2018 .
  5. ^ Legal order on the establishment of a higher regional court of August 9, 1946 ( OJ p. 146 )
  6. ^ Announcement about the opening of the Higher Regional Court in Saarbrücken from October 24, 1946 ( OJ p. 221 )
  7. ^ Pierre Laurent: L'union franco-sarroise d'apres les Conventions conclues entre la France et la Sarre de 1948 à 1950. In: Clunet, Journal du droit international, Volume 79 (1952), pp. 84-160, paragraph 46 (P. 139).
  8. ^ Laurent: L'union franco-sarroise. 1952, item 46 (p. 141).
  9. ^ Laurent: L'union franco-sarroise. 1952, paragraph 51 (p. 145).

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 41.3 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 51.9 ″  E