Higher Administrative Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

The Higher Administrative Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is the Higher Administrative Court (OVG) of the federal state of the same name and forms the top of the administrative jurisdiction of this state .

Seat and District of the Court

Former police house

The OVG Bremen has its seat in Bremen . The judicial district is the entire area of the state of Bremen. More than 663,000 people live in the 419 km² judicial district.

The address of the OVG Bremen is: Higher Administrative Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Special Court Center Bremen, Am Wall 198, 28195 Bremen. The specialized court center is housed in the former police house.

Organization and business distribution

Currently (2015) there are two senates at the OVG Bremen , each with three professional judges . There are also specialist senates for disciplinary and employee representation matters. The President of the OVG Bremen is Peter Sperlich , Vice President is Hans Alexy .

In 2015, 14 employees were employed at the Bremen Higher Administrative Court.

President

2008–2019: Ilsemarie Meyer
since July 2019: Peter Sperlich

Instance move

The OVG Bremen is subordinate to the Federal Administrative Court . The administrative court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is subordinate .

history

Administrative courts were established late in Bremen. Bremen was the last state in the Weimar Republic to introduce an administrative court . Initially, this was responsible for first and last instance. A higher administrative court was only set up with the law of September 14, 1933.

Since National Socialism generally considerably restricted the importance of administrative jurisdiction, the OVG was initially not given any greater importance. After the collapse of the Nazi state , the OVG - like any other court - was terminated for the time being. With the law on administrative jurisdiction of February 1, 1946, which came into force on July 16, 1946 based on an ordinance of the Senate of July 11, 1946, the administrative jurisdiction and thus the OVG were re-established. Bremen was thus the first state in what would later become the Federal Republic of Germany to have administrative jurisdiction and thus an OVG. The current national legal situation was achieved with the Administrative Court Code (VwGO) of 1960.

For procedures in matters of basic security for jobseekers and social assistance, for which since 2005 the administrative, but rather the social jurisdiction has been responsible, special senates for social court matters have been set up due to a federal opening clause, since Bremen's social jurisdiction does not rely on the additional personnel Cases was designed. Since federal law only allowed such a regulation for a limited period, from 2009 these Senates were only responsible for pending cases and no longer exist today.

Decisions of the OVG Bremen

OVG decisions can be viewed online on the court's website. In addition, they are published in the journal for public law in Northern Germany (NordÖR) or other specialist journals.