Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination

Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination - SenJ -
State level	Berlin
position	Supreme state authority
Headquarters	Berlin
Authority management	Dirk Behrendt , Senator for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination
Web presence	www.berlin.de

The Berlin Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination (in short: SenJ) is one of ten specialist administrations of the Berlin Senate with the rank of a state ministry and as such part of the state government as well as the highest state authority responsible for legal policy , the penal system and the administration of justice as well as for consumer protection and anti-discrimination policy in Germany Capital .

The current Justice Senator has been Dirk Behrendt ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) since December 2016 . He is supported by two state secretaries : Daniela Brückner works as state secretary for the justice sector, Margit Gottstein (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) for consumer protection and anti-discrimination.

Tasks and organization

The Berlin Senate Justice Administration is primarily responsible for questions of legal policy and the administration of justice (courts, public prosecutors, penal systems) and is divided into five departments as well as the State Office for Equal Treatment for the area of ​​anti-discrimination.

The individual departments at a glance

Department I.

• Service law and reserved individual personnel matters of the courts, public prosecutor's offices and public prosecutor's office, lawyers and notaries, personnel service and personnel management office for the Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination

Department II

• Constitutional jurisdiction, state and constitutional law, matters of participation, procedural law of administrative, financial, labor and social jurisdiction, legal and regulatory gazette, legal adjustment

Department III

• Supervision of penal institutions in matters of penal design, security, treatment and care, transition management, health care, occupancy, facility management, enforcement law and construction matters

Department IV

• Joint legal examination office, training and further education in the administration of justice (without penal system), University of Administration and Law, German Judges Academy

Department V (Consumer Policy)

• This includes the monitoring of food and feed safety as well as compliance with animal welfare requirements, consumer education through participation in the relevant legislation, questions relating to agriculture, tariff approvals from Berliner Wasserbetriebe and BSR as well as legal and Federal Council matters of consumer protection.

State Office for Equal Treatment and Against Discrimination (LADS)

• The background to this area is educating the public about rights in the event of discrimination, promoting a culture of appreciation for diversity, diversity mainstreaming within the administration, concerns of LGBTI people (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans * and inter *), promoting democracy and development and implementation of strategies against structural discrimination.

Personnel and budget volume of the Berlin justice system

In the entire Berlin judiciary, for which the Senate Justice Administration is ultimately responsible in its entirety, 11,360 employees worked in 2016 with a judicial budget of around 876 million euros (figure from 2015, similar to 2016).

Berlin's Justice Senators since 1955

→ Main article : List of Justice Senators from Berlin

Note: From December 9, 1999 to June 16, 2001, the Senate Department for Justice was incorporated into the governing mayor's division.

Senator	Political party	Start of office	End of office	Department designation
Valentin Kielinger	CDU	February 1, 1955	March 11, 1963	Judiciary
Wolfgang Kirsch	FDP	March 11, 1963	April 6, 1967
Hans-Günter Hoppe	FDP	April 6, 1967	April 20, 1971
Horst Korber	SPD	April 20, 1971	April 25, 1975
Hermann Oxfort	FDP	April 25, 1975	July 10, 1976
Jürgen Baumann	FDP	July 23, 1976	3rd July 1978
Gerhard Moritz Meyer	FDP	July 6, 1978	June 11, 1981
Rupert Scholz	Independent / CDU	June 11, 1981	March 17, 1983
Hermann Oxfort	FDP	March 17, 1983	April 18, 1985
Rupert Scholz	CDU	April 18, 1985	May 18, 1988	Justice and Federal Affairs
Ludwig A. Rehlinger	CDU	May 19, 1988	March 16, 1989
Jutta Limbach	SPD	March 16, 1989	March 24, 1994	Judiciary
Lore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit	SPD	March 24, 1994	November 12, 1997
Ehrhart Körting	SPD	November 13, 1997	December 9, 1999
Wolfgang Wieland	Alliance 90 / The Greens	June 16, 2001	January 17, 2002
Karin Schubert	SPD	January 17, 2002	November 23, 2006
Gisela von der Aue	SPD	November 23, 2006	November 30, 2011
Michael Braun	CDU	November 30, 2011	December 12, 2011	Justice and consumer protection
Thomas Heilmann	CDU	January 12, 2012	December 8, 2016
Dirk Behrendt	Alliance 90 / The Greens	December 8, 2016	in office	Justice, consumer protection and anti-discrimination

Web links

• Official website of the Berlin Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Head of the Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination , accessed on May 11, 2017
2. ↑ Figures on staff and budget volume of the Berlin justice system , accessed on May 11, 2017
3. ↑ Organizational chart of the Berlin Senate Department for Justice  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 11, 2017  
4. ^ The departments of the Berlin Senate Department for Justice , accessed on May 11, 2017