Former courts in Germany

Instrument of judicial murder in Nazi Germany

thumb|Session of the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar, 1750 The ; ; ) was one of the two highest judicial institutions in the Holy Roman Empire, the other one being the Aulic Council in Vienna. It was founded in 1495 by the Imperial Diet in Worms. All legal proceedings in the Holy Roman Empire could be brought to the Imperial Chamber Court, except if the ruler of the territory had a so-called privilegium de non appellando, in which case the highest judicial institution was found by the ruler of that territory (though the privilege could be bypassed if a litigant could claim they had been deni

Court Council of the Holy Roman Empire

The '''''' (, ) was the supreme criminal and civil court of Germany from 1879 to 1945, encompassing the periods of the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. It was based in Leipzig.

The Reichskriegsgericht (, RKG; ) was the highest military court in Germany between 1900 and 1945.

thumb|right|Judge Roland Freisler (centre) at the People's Court|250px A Sondergericht (plural: Sondergerichte) was a German "special court". After taking power in 1933, the Nazis quickly moved to remove internal opposition to the Nazi regime in Germany. The legal system became one of many tools for this aim and the Nazis gradually supplanted the normal justice system with political courts with wide-ranging powers. The function of the special courts was to intimidate the German public, but as they expanded their scope and took over roles previously done by ordinary courts such as Amtsgerichte

nazi Party judicial tribunal

drumhead court-martial in Nazi Germany

highest court in East Germany

court that decided whether people should be forcibly sterilized in Nazi Germany