Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection

The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection ( BMJV ) is a Supreme Authority of the Federal Republic of Germany. Originating it is from the Reich Ministry of Justice ( 1945 ). With the appointment of the Cabinet Merkel III, the Federal Ministry of Justice was renamed on 17 December 2013 the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.

Historical classification

The Office of the Attorney General or the Minister of Justice heard alongside those of the interior, foreign affairs, finance and defense minister (former Minister of War ) to the so-called conventional sections. This name comes from the fact that there were only these divisions in the first German Reich government.

Jurisdiction

Senior employer in the Ministry, the Federal Minister or the Minister of Justice. The respective incumbents are a civil servant and a parliamentary secretary to the side.

In the federal system of Germany, the administration of justice, administration of justice and law enforcement is primarily the responsibility of the provinces. The central task of the Federal in the field of justice is the securing and developing the rule of law; This objective reflects the legislative activity. It includes the preparation of new laws and the preparation and amendment or repeal of laws in the traditional fields of law, namely, civil law, criminal law, the commercial and corporate law, copyright and intellectual property law, the court constitutional and procedural law for the individual jurisdictions (except labor and social justice ) as well as the service and professional law for judges, prosecutors, lawyers and notaries. Furthermore, the Ministry is for the adult with the establishment of German unity tasks in the field of criminal law, administrative law and professional rehabilitation and the "open property issues " responsible. The Department also reviews all prepared by ministries other laws and draft regulations, the so-called " Rechtsförmlichkeit " to ensure that the legal provisions are compatible with the Basic Law. The Ministry is the editor of the publication organs Federal Law Gazette and the Federal Gazette and prepares the election of judges of the Federal Constitutional Court and the judges of the supreme courts of the Federation.

The division of the Ministry include the federal court in Karlsruhe with a 5th Criminal Division in Leipzig, the Federal Prosecutor General at the Federal Court in Karlsruhe with the service from Leipzig, the Federal Office of Justice with the Federal Central Criminal Register in Bonn, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig, the Federal Fiscal in Munich, the German Federal Patent Court in Munich and the German Patent and Trade Mark Office ( DPMA) in Munich with offices in Berlin and Jena.

The current Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the black and red German government is the SPD politician Heiko Maas.

European Union and International Aspects

The federal justice minister is part of the legislation of the European Union in the framework of the Council of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs.

While in Germany, a strict separation between security ( prevention of violence → Home Office ) and law enforcement ( repressive violence → Ministry of Justice) takes place, exist in some States no such separations. In Britain, the law enforcement and security under the Secretary of State for the Home is perceived. In the United States means the Minister of Justice Attorney General. In the American system there is a separation between law enforcement and security tasks ( through the newly created Department of Homeland Security).

Federal Minister since 1949

After Fritz Neumayer had left the cabinet, took over the then Federal Minister for Affairs of the Bundesrat Hans- Joachim von Merkatz also the Ministry of Justice and so, briefly up to the federal election in 1957, two led ministries.

Parliamentary Secretaries

Officers Secretaries

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