Collection - Rep. 5E Amtsgerichte

Allgemeine Behördengeschichte<br /><br />In implementation of the Court Constitution Act of the German Reich of 27 January 1877, district courts were established as lower court authorities in the area of the Berlin Court of Appeal on 1 October 1879. They emerged from the dissolved district courts, court deputations and commissions (cf. Rep. 5 D) and took over their individual judicial business. In civil law disputes, these included property law proceedings worth less than 300 marks, tenancy disputes and other matters of lesser importance. They were also responsible for matters of non-contentious jurisdiction, probate, keeping the registers of associations, trade, co-operatives, models and ships as well as keeping the land register. Lay judges' courts were established at the district courts for the trial of criminal cases involving misdemeanours and offences punishable by a maximum of three months in prison. They were made up of the district courts and were completely abolished on 2 October 1952. The tasks of contentious jurisdiction were taken over by the new district courts, in Greater Berlin by the city district courts. Voluntary jurisdiction was transferred to other authorities. The district councils took over guardianship matters (departments of public education and health care), the keeping of the land register (cadastre department), leasehold protection matters (agriculture and forestry department) and the register of co-operatives and trade (departments of trade and supply; local industry; agriculture and forestry). The register of associations was transferred to the People's Police District Offices, the register of ships to the Berlin Waterways Directorate, and the register of designs to the Office for Inventions and Patents. The state notary's offices were primarily responsible for wills and probate matters.<br />From the land register records of the district courts, which were dissolved in 1952, and their presiding judge, who was responsible for keeping the land register until 1990, and two elected honorary lay judges. The district courts were under the supervision of the district court presidents. The location and number of district courts remained largely unchanged until 1945. Only in the Berlin area did it prove necessary to increase the number of courts due to the strong increase in population in 1906. Furthermore, the district courts of Fehrbellin, Lippehne and Pförten were dissolved in 1932 as part of cost-cutting measures.<br />After 1945, the district courts became authorities of the state of Brandenburg and the Magistrate of Greater Berlin. The separate administration of Berlin in 1945 led to the formation of new district courts in the peripheral areas around Berlin belonging to the state of Brandenburg, which had previously been within the jurisdiction of Berlin courts. After the number of independent local courts in the state of Brandenburg had been significantly reduced by 1 July 1951 through dissolution or conversion into branch offices, they were established by the Court Constitution Act of the German Democratic Authorities in May 1993.<br />During inventory delimitation work in 1981, files continued after 1945 were separated out and assigned to the inventory group of the Local Courts of the State of Brandenburg Rep. 260.<br />In the course of the inventory delimitation with the Berlin State Archives in 2001, the holdings of the Berlin Local Courts were transferred there.

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