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Reichsgericht
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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.
Key facts
- Court.court_name
- Imperial Court
- Court.image
- Leipzig Reichsgericht.jpg
- Court.caption
- The building in Leipzig (today the seat of the Federal Administrative Court)
- Court.established
- 1 October 1879
- Court.dissolved
- 30 October 1945
- Court.language
- German
- Court.tribunal type
- Supreme court
- Court.jurisdiction
- German Empire
- Court.location
- Leipzig, Saxony, German Empire
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Composition and jurisdiction
- Case law
- Empire
- Weimar Republic
- Nazi era
- Racial Laws
- End of the ''Reichsgericht''
- Building
- List of presidents
- See also
- References
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 began its work on 1 October 1879, the date on which the ' (Imperial Judiciary Acts) came into effect. The acts standardised court types and procedural rules across the newly formed German Empire and established judicial independence and unrestricted access to the courts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Reichsgericht” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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