Supreme Court of East Germany

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The Supreme Court of the German Democratic Republic was the highest judicial organ of the GDR. It was set up in 1949 and was housed on Scharnhorststraße 6 in Berlin. The building now houses the district court in Berlin, Germany 2 Instance and the District Court Berlin-Mitte. In the early days, 14 judges made up the court. It was disestablished in 1990.

Responsibilities

Among the responsibilities of the court included Later other tasks were added, mainly due to the process of simplification which is attributable to the pace of DDR-Justiz. Neither separate constitutional court nor special administrative, social and financial court systems existed in the GDR.

Notable figures

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