BUNDESGERICHTSHOF

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The Bundesgerichtshof or BGH (German for "federal court") is the highest appeals court in Germany for cases of civil and criminal law. In civil law cases, it hears appeals against decisions of the Oberlandesgerichte (Superior State Courts), in criminal law cases against those of the Landgerichte or Inferior State Courts.

The Bundesgerichtshof was established in 1950 and is situated in Karlsruhe. Its predecessor was the Reichsgericht.

Judges

Presidents

• Robert Fischer (judge)
• Karlmann Geiß
• Bruno Heusinger
• Günter Hirsch
• Walter Odersky
• Gerd Pfeiffer
• Hermann Weinkauff

Vice Presidents

• Horst Hagen
• Fritz Hauß
• Burkhard Jähnke
• Gerda Müller
• Joachim Wenzel

Presiding Judges

• Friedrich Blumenröhr
• Katharina Deppert
• Wolf-Dieter Dressler
• Willi Erdmann
• Wulf Goette
• Werner Groß
• Max Güde
• Monika Harms
• Gerhart Kreft
• Klaus Kutzer
• Heinrich Wilhelm Laufhütte
• Lutz Meyer-Goßner
• Armin Nack
• Gerd Nobbe
• Eberhard Rinne
• Ruth Rissing-van Saan
• Rüdiger Rogge
• Volker Röhricht
• Gerhard Schäfer
• Herbert Schimansky
• Wolfgang Schlick
• Karl-Bernhard Schmitz
• Ingeborg Tepperwien
• Wilfried Terno
• Klaus Tolksdorf

Judges

• Ekkehard Appl
• Gerhard Athing
• Clemens Basdorf
• Jörg Peter Becker
• Alfred Bergmann
• Rolf Bischoff
• Peter Blauth
• Bernhard Bode
• Axel Boetticher
• Hans-Peter Brause
• Siegfried Broß
• Hans-Joachim Brüning
• Wolfgang Büsche
• Erhard Bungeroth
• Gabriele Calliebe
• Safari Chabestari
• Jürgen Cierniak
• Hans-Joachim Czub
• Klaus Detter
• Hans-Joachim Dose
• Renate Elf
• Andreas Ernemann
• Hans Joachim Faller
• Detlev Fischer
• Thomas Fischer
• Ulrich Franke
• Reinhard Gaier
• Gregor Galke
• Markus Gehrlein
• Alfons van Gelder
• Wolfgang Gerber
• Ursula Gerhardt
• Jürgen von Gerlach
• Jürgen-Peter Graf
• Karl Haager
• Joachim Häger
• Ulrich Hebenstreit
• Hartwig Henze
• Monika Hermanns
• Ulrich Herrmann
• Dieter Hesselberger
• Erwin Hubert
• Gerbert Hübsch
• Bernhard Jestaedt
• Hans-Ulrich Joeres
• Hans-Peter Kirchhof
• Harald Kolz
• Christine Krohn
• Jürgen-Detlef Kuckein
• Heidi Lambert-Lang
• Reiner Lemke
• Manfred Lepa
• Gerhard von Lienen
• Kurt Rüdiger Maatz
• Heinrich Maul
• Hans-Kurt Mees
• Elisabeth Mühlens
• Maren Münke
• Wolfgang Neskovic
• Wolfgang Pfister
• Friedrich Quack
• Rolf Raum
• Angelika Reichart
• Dietrich Reinicke
• Karin-Huberta Ritter
• Ellen Roggenbuck
• Wolfgang Römer
• Hans-Jürgen Schaal
• Wilhelm Schluckebier
• Jürgen Schmidt-Räntsch
• Bertram Schmitt
• Ernst Schneider
• Otto Seidl
• Helmut Simon (judge)
• Joachim Siol
• Daniela Solin-Stojanovic
• Beate Sost-Scheible
• Joachim Starck
• Heinz Dieter Stodolkowitz
• Christina Stresemann
• Lutz Strohn
• Rheinhold Thode
• Ernst Träger
• Karl-Friedrich Tropf
• Gerhard Ulsamer
• Gerhard Vill
• Max Vogt
• Thomas Wagenitz
• Bernhard Wahl
• Roland Wendt
• Manfred Werp
• Klaus Winter
• Karl-Hermann Zoll
• Jannpeter Zopfs
• Horst Josef Zugehör
• Lothar Zysk

External links

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