English Translation

4-120 20 IV. THE COURT OF JUSTICE IN SUDETENLAND The organization of the courts in the new Reichsgau must also be presented with short strokes. It took place in the basic lines for the entire Sudeten-German territories already before the set of divisions of 25 March 1939 (RGBl. I 745), even before the constitution on the reunification of 21 November 1938 (RGBI. I 1641). 1938 (RGBI. I 1345) it was ordered that the courts in the Sudeten German territories speak law in the name of the German people. The previous district courts and district courts remain after this vote, but the former lead the name "Landgerichte", which letters the name „Amtsgerichte". The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the Czechoslovak Republic passed through these votes to the Reichsgericht, which the Procurator General transferred to the Supreme Administration of the Reich Court. However, the competence of the People's Court in Berlin remained unaffected. The jurisdiction of the special courts existing in the Sudeten German territories was also provisionally left untouched. With Vo. 14. 10. 1938 the management of the judicial administration in the sudetenGerman territories was transferred to the Reich Minister of Justice, with some transitional arrangements being made. As regards the intermediate stage between the Landgerichts and the Reichsgericht, the above mentioned vo. of 8 October 1938 (RGBl. I 1345) had transferred the jurisdiction of the Obergericht (Upper Regional Court) to a senate to be formed at the Land-gericht Reichenberg, where a state attorney's office was established. I 201, however, was created in Leitmerits a separate Higher Regional Court for the Sudeten German territories. With the same decree, new regional courts with the associated prosecutors' offices were established in Trautenau and Moravian-Schönberg. According to the decree of 8 October 1938 (RGBl. I 1345) had changed the splendour of the lower courts to the extent that this had become necessary due to the demarcation between the German Reich and the Czechoslovak Republic (now the Protectorate), and in connection with the establishment of new regional courts the splints of the eettts were now added to the list by a considerable number of regulations, which are listed under VII-5. the organisation of the court is almost complete, and the court proceedings are very much aligned with the existing institutions in the Old Kingdom.