Reich Disciplinary Court

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The Reichsdisciplinary Court was an appeals court for disciplinary offenses committed by Reich officials. It was founded in Leipzig in 1873 and was housed in the imperial court building there. In 1937 he was replaced by the Reichsdienststrafhof in Berlin . The Federal Disciplinary Court was its successor in the Federal Republic .

Legal basis

The Disciplinary Court was created on the basis of Section 86 of the Reich Civil Servants Act of March 31, 1873. He formed the second instance for appeal proceedings against decisions of the disciplinary chambers in questions of disciplinary law relating to the Reich officials. According to § 87 it had its seat where the Reich Higher Commercial Court (later Reich Court ) had its seat.

Disciplinary chambers existed in Potsdam, Frankfurt a. O., Königsberg, Danzig, Stettin, Köslin, Bromberg, Posen, Magdeburg, Erfurt, Breslau, Liegnitz, Opole, Münster, Arnsberg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Trier, Darmstadt, Frankfurt a. M., Kassel, Hanover, Schleswig, Leipzig, Karlsruhe, Schwerin, Lübeck and Bremen.

The Disciplinary Court was not responsible for military misconduct. The disciplinary court for the protected areas was the first instance the disciplinary chamber for the protected areas based in Potsdam and the second instance the disciplinary court for the protected areas based in Berlin.

history

From 1879 to 1945 Leipzig was the center of jurisdiction in Germany. With the exception of the Reichsfinanzhof, all the highest courts of justice had their seat in Leipzig. Presidents of the Reich Disciplinary Court were Adolf Lobe and Walter Simons , among others .

In the era of National Socialism of Reichsdisziplinarhof recognized in various methods to dismissal if officials "the Hitler salute improperly summoned", "the Jewish question blankly faced" in the elections, especially at the elections of March 29, 1936 , had not involved or had not joined any National Socialist organization.

Judge

The disciplinary court consisted of eleven members, of which at least four had to be authorized representatives of the Federal Council , the president and at least five members of the Reich Higher Commercial Court.

The first President of the Disciplinary Court was the President of the Reich Higher Commercial Court Heinrich Eduard von Pape . He was followed by Eduard von Simson from 1879 to 1891 .

literature

  • Rudolf Morsey : The tasks of the North German Confederation and the Reich; in: Kurt GA Jeserich (Ed.): Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte, Volume 3, 1984, ISBN 3-421-06133-5 , p. 179
  • Reich Office of the Interior: Handbook for the German Reich, 1874, p. 38 ff., Online
  • Adolf Lobe , with the cooperation of members and officials of the Reichsgericht, the Reichswaltschaft and the Rechtsanwaltschaft at the Reichsgericht: Fifty years of the Reichsgericht on October 1st, 1929 . Berlin 1929 DNB (Chapter: The Disciplinary Court , pp. 62-69)

Decision collections:

  • The case law of the Imperial Disciplinary Court (1914, ZDB -ID 984509-4 )
  • The case law of the Reich Disciplinary Court (1925–1937, ZDB -ID 510533-x )
  • Decisions of the Reichsdienststrafhof (1.1939–3.1941, ZDB -ID 216339-1 )

Web links

Wikisource: Reichsbeamtengesetz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Federal Administrative Court : earlier use of the service building, accessed on April 24, 2013
  2. RGBl. P. 177
  3. AusfBest. to the KolBG. of June 8, 1910, RGBl. P. 1091
  4. German Bundestag: (PDF; 313 kB) Motion for a resolution for a balanced distribution of federal authorities with special consideration of the new federal states of June 24, 1992, accessed on April 24, 2013
  5. ^ Register entry Adolf Lobe in the Deutsche Biographie, accessed on February 11, 2014
  6. Filipo Ranieri: Printed sources of jurisprudence in Europe ( 1800-1945 ) , Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt aM 1992, ISBN 3-465-02296-3 , p. 219
  7. Federal Constitutional Court: Civil Servant Relationships, accessed on April 24, 2013