V. Criminal Senate of the Reich Court

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The Fifth Penal Senate of the Reichsgericht was a ruling body of the Reichsgericht . It was one of up to six senates that dealt with criminal matters .

The establishment of the Senate on April 17, 1906 was related to the creation of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . Senate presidents included Gustav Kaufmann (1906–12), Johannes von Tischendorf (1912–21), Paul Richter (1921–24), Josef Max Reichert (1926–28), Franz Mentzel (1928), most recently Friedrich Döbig (1943– 45).

The fifth criminal division existed as an appeal instance until July 1923. Then from September 1923 to September 1924 it took the place of the first-instance criminal division in the field of political criminal law and thus continued the combined second and third criminal division (for appointments see IV. Criminal division ). In division of labor with the IV Criminal Senate , he took over treason and espionage matters from April 1926 to October 1928 (e.g. pontoon trial in 1928) and from late 1932 to mid-1933 in all state security matters the letters M to Z (then also in the division of labor with the VI Criminal Senate until mid-1934, the letters L to S) and administrative matters (association and print bans). He was also the VII Civil Senate from July 1926 to June 1927 and the VIII Civil Senate (matrimonial matters) from April to October 1928 .

In July 1934, the 5th Criminal Senate again became an appeal instance for criminal matters from the districts of the Higher Regional Courts of Düsseldorf , Hamm and Naumburg (1941: Danzig , Düsseldorf, Königsberg , Marienwerder , Posen , Rostock , Stettin ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Simons : Reichsgericht . In: Julius Magnus (Ed.): The highest courts in the world . W. Moeser, 1929, p. 15
  2. ↑ §§ 3, 6 of the ordinance of the Reich President for the maintenance of internal peace of December 19, 1932 ( RGBl. I p. 548 ); Sections 10, 11 of the ordinance of the Reich President for the protection of the German people of February 4, 1933 ( RGBl. I p. 35 )
  3. ^ Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Imperial Court . tape 4, 1933-1945 . Akademie-Verlag, 1971, p. 44 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ DJ 1941 pp. 107, 109