State ship

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International agreement for the uniform determination of rules on the immunities of state ships of April 10, 1926

A state ship is a ship that is either directly owned by the state or used indirectly by a state for public purposes.

In older times (around 1900), the group of state ships essentially only included warships . Today, it includes war, government and research ships, as well as state yachts, state merchant ships and others. The status as a ship of state is indicated by flying one's own war or service flags. From a legal point of view, state ships are treated separately in a large number of cases. Under maritime law , state ships that are used for sovereign purposes enjoy immunity, the extent of which varies depending on the type and use of the ship. Warships and ships that display the flag of a head of state or one of his representatives are considered extraterritorial outside their own sovereign territory . In addition, they have certain honorary rights. Also register legal government ships are treated separately and are not, for example, is usually subject to attachment . The special status of state ships is enshrined in law in the International Convention for the Uniform Determination of Individual Rules on the Immunity of State Sea Ships of 1926 and in Article 32 (immunities of warships and other state ships that serve other than commercial purposes) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea .

In a figurative sense, the term “ship of state” has also been used as a synonym for the state or a state structure since ancient times.

literature

  • Hans Jürgen Abraham: The law of the sea in the Federal Republic of Germany , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1978, p. 78/79.
  • Georg Ress: Development tendencies of the immunity of foreign states , pp. 218–275

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  1. ↑ Jörn Wille: The prosecution of criminal acts on board ships and aircraft , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1974, p. 49.
  2. ↑ Stephan Leibfried: Staatsschiff Europa , In: Federal Agency for Political Education , April 23, 2010
  3. ↑ Duden entry state ship
  4. ↑ Commentary on: Emblema Votivum Wegendessen / Von Königlicher Mayestet Heinrico IIII In: Wolfgang Harms (Hrsg.): German illustrated leaflets of the 16th [sixteenth] and 17th centuries , Vol. 2 published by Kraus Verlag, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3- 484-10488-0 , p. 396.