VI. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice

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The VI. The civil senate is a panel of the Federal Court of Justice . It is one of thirteen senates currently dealing with civil matters.

He is mainly responsible for the law of unauthorized acts (e.g. traffic accident cases, product and doctor liability).

occupation

The Senate is currently composed as follows:

Chairperson

No. Name (life data) Beginning of the term of office Term expires
1 Wilhelm Meiß (1893–1960) May 15, 1953 September 30, 1959
2 Joseph Engels (1901–1982) October 8, 1959 November 30, 1969
3 Rudolf Pehle (1910–1972) January 28, 1970 August 28, 1972
4th Reinhold Weber (* 1914) Late 1972 / early 1973 April 30, 1982
5 Hans-Joachim Hiddemann (1923–1984) May 18, 1982 April 19, 1984
6th Erich Steffen (* 1930) June 29, 1984 May 31, 1995
7th Werner Gross (* 1935) July 7, 1995 October 31, 2000
8th Gerda Müller (* 1946) November 27, 2000 June 30, 2009
9 Gregor Galke (* 1953) August 19, 2009 August 31, 2018
9 Stephan Seiters (* 1960) May 22, 2019

Jurisdiction

According to the BGH's business distribution plan (as of 2015), VI. Civil Senate (unchanged since 2012) responsible for:

  1. the legal disputes over claims from unauthorized acts , unless the I. Civil Senate (No. 1), the II. Civil Senate (No. 1 e, f, h and i), the III. Civil Senate (No. 1, 2 and 10), the V Civil Senate (No. 1 b, e and h) or the VII Civil Senate (No. 3) is responsible for claims for damages from medical treatment of humans and animals, even if they based on a contract, claims for damages from §§ 84 ff of the law on the trade in medicinal products as well as claims from the right to one's own image (§§ 22 ff KunstUrhG) and from the Federal Data Protection Act ;
  2. the legal disputes over claims from accidents in which an aircraft, a motor vehicle, a railway or a tram are involved, even if they are based on the transport contract , but with the exception of the freight contracts belonging to the jurisdiction of the 1st Civil Senate (No. 6) Goods;
  3. the legal disputes over claims from the Product Liability Act of December 15, 1989 ( Federal Law Gazette I, p. 2198 ) as well as from the Law on the Regulation of Genetic Engineering of December 16, 1993 ( Federal Law Gazette I, p. 2066 );
  4. the legal disputes about claims from the Environmental Liability Act of December 10, 1990 ( Federal Law Gazette I, p. 2634 ), unless further claims are asserted based on other regulations (Section 18 (1) UmweltHG) or another legal area is the actual subject of the dispute;
    1. maritime affairs (§§ 476 ff HGB) as well as inland waterway and rafting matters ( BinSchG ) with the exception of freight transactions,
    2. the legal disputes arising from towing contracts or from the collision of watercraft with other objects, including remote damage,
    3. legal disputes arising from insurance (including reinsurance) of watercraft and from cargo insurance for transport by sea or in inland waterways alone or in connection with land transport, insofar as the main focus of the legal dispute in the appellate body is nautical issues,
    4. the legal disputes arising from the law on rights to registered ships and ship structures of November 15, 1940, on possession and ownership of ships and ship structures,
    5. the legal disputes over ship liens and foreclosure in ships (§§ 162 ff ZVG);
  6. Legal complaints according to § 70 FamFG in
    1. the corporate law proceedings mentioned in § 375 No. 2 FamFG, unless the 1st Civil Senate (No. 11) is responsible,
    2. Public notice matters relating to the call-up of the owner of ships and shipbuilding works, the creditor of ship liens and the ship's creditor;
  7. Legal complaints insofar as it concerns the keeping of the ship registers , inland shipping registers and shipbuilding registers and other powers of the register judge.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Distribution of the BGH's business (accessed on April 22, 2018)
  2. ^ Occupation of the VI. Civil Senate on the website of the Federal Court of Justice
  3. ↑ https://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2019/2019038.html;jsessionid=9471FCDA91A70F01833DEB14A8684257.2_cid359?nn=10690868 Press release of the Federal Court of Justice of April 1, 2019, accessed on April 14, 2019
  4. ↑ Business Distribution Plan 2015 (accessed on May 20, 2015)
  5. ↑ Distribution of business 2012 by the Federal Court of Justice ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 20, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesgerichtshof.de