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Reichsgericht

highest court in Germany from 1879 to 1945
Organization supreme_court Q512552
Reichsgericht
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Facts

11 properties
Instance of
supreme court
Inception
1879[12]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1879-01-01 GND (DNB) 1879-10-01 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Headquarters location
Reichsgericht building[3]
Country
German Reich[2]
Part of
Ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit[4]
Applies to jurisdiction
Nazi Germany, Weimar Republic, German Empire[14][15][16]
Chairperson
Eduard von Simson, Erwin Bumke, Walter Simons, Heinrich Delbrück, Otto von Oehlschläger, Karl Gutbrod, Rudolf Seckendorff[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Described by source
Das neue deutsche Reichsgericht zu Leipzig[17]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
October 30, 1945[13]
P14536
352488[20]
Replaced by
Federal Court of Justice of Germany, Supreme Court of East Germany[18][19]
🏷️ Also known as
en Imperial Court of Justice en Reichsgericht cs Císařský soudní dvůr de RG el Ράιχσγκεριχτ fr Tribunal impérial de Leipzig fr Cour impériale de Leipzig fr Reichsgericht fr tribunal du Reich he רייכסגריכט it tribunale del Terzo Reich ja ドイツ国最高裁判所 ja ライヒ裁判所 ru Имперский суд zh 德意志帝国最高法院 zh-hant 德意志帝國最高法院
🔖 Identifiers · 5
GND ID
2029577-7
Freebase ID
/m/0gy75m
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
2029577-7
Topic's main category
Category:Reichsgericht
Yale LUX ID
group/61b6a2f1-5a54-4d45-acfb-d4b2188ff382

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Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261015 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
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🔗 Connections
Applies to jurisdiction 3
Nazi Germany, German Empire, Weimar Republic
Chairperson 3
Walter Simons, Eduard von Simson, Erwin Bumke
Replaced by 2
Federal Court of Justice of Germany, Supreme Court of East Germany
← Replaces 2
Federal Court of Justice of Germany, Supreme Court of East Germany
Country 1
German Reich
Headquarters location 1
Reichsgericht building
Instance of 1
supreme court
← Occupant 1
Reichsgericht building
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Summary

Reichsgericht is a supreme court[1].

Related Entities

German Empire Nazi Germany Walter Simons

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  1. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dissolved → —
    Aliases → —
    Described by source → Das neue deutsche Reichsgericht zu Leipzig
    Chairperson → Eduard von Simson, Erwin Bumke, Walter Simons +4
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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