Reichsjustizamt

'''Reichsjustizamt''' ({{Langx|en|text=Imperial Justice Office}}) was the highest authority of the law in the [[German Empire]], and was the predecessor of ''Reichsministerium der Justiz'', the [[Reich Ministry of Justice]].

Reichsjustizamt was under the jurisdiction of the ''Reichskanzler'' or [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Imperial Chancellor]] as Department IV from 1875 until 1 January 1877 when it became independent. Under Reichsjustizamt were the Imperial Court, the Imperial Bar, and the Imperial Patent Office. An [[Undersecretary of State]] managed the Reichsjustizamt. It continued becoming the ''Reichsministerium der Justiz'' in 1919.

{| align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding="2" style="border:1px #FFDEAD;" | style="background:#FFDEAD" align="center" colspan="4" | '''Undersecretary of States of the Reichsjustizamt''' |- ! width="350" style="background:#FFDEAD" | '''Name''' ! width="350" style="background:#FFDEAD" | '''Period of Office''' |- |style="padding:2px 15px; background:#FFF8DC;" |[[Heinrich von Friedberg|Heinrich Friedberg]] (1813-1895) |style="background:#FFF8DC;" align="center" |21 December 1876 - 30 October 1879 |- |style="padding:2px 15px; background:#FFF8DC;" |[[Hermann von Schelling]] (1824-1908) |style="background:#FFF8DC;" align="center" |19 November 1879 - 31 January 1889 |- |style="padding:2px 15px; background:#FFF8DC;" |[[Otto von Oehlschläger]] (1831-1904) |style="background:#FFF8DC;" align="center" |19 February 1889 - 2 February 1891 |- |style="padding:2px 15px; background:#FFF8DC;" |[[Robert Bosse]] (1832-1901) |style="background:#FFF8DC;" align="center" |2 February 1891 - 24 March 1892 |- |style="padding:2px 15px; background:#FFF8DC;" |[[Eduard Hanauer]] (1829-1893) |style="background:#FFF8DC;" align="center" |2 April 1892 - 30 April 1893 |- |style="padding:2px 15px; background:#FFF8DC;" |[[Rudolf Arnold Nieberding]] (1838-1912) |style="background:#FFF8DC;" align="center" |11 July 1893 - 25 October 1909 |- |style="padding:2px 15px; background:#FFF8DC;" |[[Hermann Lisco]] (1850-1923) |style="background:#FFF8DC;" align="center" |25 October 1909 - 5 August 1917 |- |style="padding:2px 15px; background:#FFF8DC;" |[[Paul von Krause]] (1852-1923) |style="background:#FFF8DC;" align="center" |7 August 1917 - 13 February 1919 |}

==References== *Kenneth F. Ledford. ''From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878-1933.'' Cambridge University Press, Nov 2, 2006 pg. 75 *Hans Schulte-Nölke. ''Das Reichsjustizamt und die Entstehung des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuchs'' (IUS COMMUNE, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Vol. 71), Klostermann, Frankfurt/Main 1995, XIX, 378 pp

[[Category:Politics of the German Empire]]