Federal Ministry of Justice (Germany)
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| Federal Ministry of Justice Bundesministerium der Justiz |
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| Formed | January 1, 1877 as Reichsjustizamt |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Germany |
| Headquarters | Mohrenstrasse 7, |
| Employees | 623 |
| Minister responsible | Ms. Brigitte Zypries, Federal Minister of Justice |
| Agency executives | Alfred Hartenbach, Parliamentary State Secretary Lutz Diwell, State Secretary |
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| http://www.bmj.bund.de | |
The Federal Ministry of Justice (German: Bundesministerium der Justiz or BMJ) is a federal ministry in Germany.
Under the federal system of Germany, individual states are most responsible for the administration of justice and the application of penalties. The Federal Ministry of Justice devotes itself to creating and changing law in the classic core areas related to Constitutional law. The Ministry also analyzes the legality and constitutionality of laws prepared by other ministries.
The German Federal Court of Justice, the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO) (German: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA)), and Patent Court all fall under its scope.
It was founded on January 1, 1877, as the Imperial Justice Office (Reichsjustizamt). After Germany became a republic in 1919, it was raised to the rank of a federal ministry as the Reichsministerium der Justiz. The ministry was formally renamed the Bundesministerium der Justiz in 1949, although in several laws it continued to be referred to as the Reichsministerium der Justiz until 2006.[citation needed]
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[edit] List of ministers
[edit] State Secretaries for Justice, 1876–1918
- Heinrich Friedberg 1876–1879
- Hermann von Schelling 1879–1889
- Otto von Ohlschläger 1889–1891
- Robert Bosse 1891–1892
- Eduard von Hanauer 1892–1893
- Rudolf Arnold Nieberding 1893–1909
- Hermann Lisco 1909–1917
- Paul Georg Christof von Krause 1917–1918
[edit] Ministers of Justice, 1918–
- Wilhelm Dittmann 1918–1919
- Otto Landsberg 1919
- none 1919
- Eugen Schiffer 1919–1920
- Andreas Blunck 1920
- Eugen Schiffer 1921
- Gustav Radbruch 1921–1922
- Rudolf Heinze 1922–1923
- Gustav Radbruch 1923
- Erich Emminger 1923–1924
- Kurt Joël 1924–1925
- Josef Frenken 1925
- Hans Luther (acting) 1925–1926
- Wilhelm Marx 1926
- Johannes Bell 1926–1927
- Oskar Hergt 1927–1928
- Erich Koch-Weser 1928–1929
- Theodor von Guérard 1929–1930
- Johann Viktor Bredt 1930
- Kurt Joël 1930–1932
- Franz Gürtner 1932–1941
- Franz Schlegelberger 1941–1942
- Otto Georg Thierack 1942–1945
- Thomas Dehler 1949–1953
- Fritz Neumayer 1953–1956
- Hans-Joachim von Merkatz 1956–1957
- Fritz Schäffer 1957–1961
- Wolfgang Stammberger 1961–1962
- Ewald Bucher 1962–1965
- Karl Weber 1965
- Richard Jaeger 1965–1966
- Gustav Heinemann 1966–1969
- Horst Ehmke 1969
- Gerhard Jahn 1969–1974
- Hans-Jochen Vogel 1974–1981
- Jürgen Schmude 1981–1982
- Hans A. Engelhard 1982–1991
- Klaus Kinkel 1991–1992
- Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger 1992–1995
- Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig 1996–1998
- Herta Däubler-Gmelin 1998–2002
- Brigitte Zypries 2002–
[edit] External links
- Official homepage in German (translation available)
- Official translation of German federal laws/parts
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