Fonds - Rep. 5E Local courts

General History of Authorities<br /><br />In implementation of the Court Constitution Act of the German Reich of 27 January 1877, local courts were formed as lower judicial 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 single-judge business. In civil disputes, these included property law proceedings with values below 300 marks, rental disputes and other matters of lesser importance. They also took over matters of non-contentious jurisdiction, the probate system, the keeping of association, commercial, cooperative, model and ship registers as well as the land register. For the trial in criminal cases of violations and misdemeanours, which were punishable by imprisonment of up to three months at the most, lay courts were created at the district courts. They consisted of the district judge as chairman and two elected honorary jurors. The Local Courts were supervised by the Presidents of the Regional Courts. The seat and number of district courts remained essentially unchanged until 1945. Only in the Berlin area was an increase necessary due to the strong growth of the population in 1906. In addition, the district courts of Fehrbellin, Lippehne and Pförten were dissolved in 1932 in the course of cost-cutting measures.<br />After 1945, the district courts became authorities of the state of Brandenburg and the magistrate of Greater Berlin, respectively. In 1945, Berlin's separate administration led to the formation of new district courts in the peripheral areas around Berlin belonging to the State of Brandenburg, which had previously been located in the court district of Berlin courts. After the number of independent local courts in the Land of Brandenburg had been substantially restricted by dissolution or conversion into branch offices on 1 July 1951, they were completely abolished by the Court Constitution Act of the German Democratic Republic of 2 October 1952. The tasks of the disputed jurisdiction were assumed by the new district courts, in Greater Berlin by the municipal district courts. The tasks of voluntary jurisdiction were transferred to other authorities. The county councils were responsible for guardianship matters (departments of public education and health care), land register management (land register department), lease protection matters (agriculture and forestry department) and the cooperative and trade register (trade and supply departments; local industry; agriculture and forestry). The register of associations was transferred to the Volkspolizeikreisämter, the shipping register to the Wasserstraßendirektion Berlin, the design register to the Amt für Erfindungungs- und Patentwesen. The State Notariates were primarily responsible for matters relating to wills and estates.<br />The Central Land Register Archive in the BLHA was formed in May 1993 from the land register documents of the District Courts dissolved in 1952 and their authorities responsible for land register management until 1990.<br />In the course of inventory delimitation work in 1981, files continued after 1945 were spun off and assigned to the inventory group of the district 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 district courts were transferred there.

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