Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination
Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination |
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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
Note: From December 9, 1999 to June 16, 2001, the Senate Department for Justice was incorporated into the governing mayor's division.
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Senator | Political party | Start of office | End of office | Department designation |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Head of the Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination , accessed on May 11, 2017
- ↑ Figures on staff and budget volume of the Berlin justice system , accessed on May 11, 2017
- ↑ 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
- ^ The departments of the Berlin Senate Department for Justice , accessed on May 11, 2017