The State Constitutional Court of Schleswig-Holstein is the state constitutional jurisdiction of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, established on 1 May 2008. It is based in Schleswig.
The State Constitutional Court of Schleswig-Holstein is the state constitutional jurisdiction of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, established on 1 May 2008. It is based in Schleswig.
Until 2008, Schleswig-Holstein was the only German state that did not have its own constitutional jurisdiction. Instead, disputes concerning state constitutional law were to be referred to the Federal Constitutional Court in accordance with Article 51 of the state constitution in conjunction with Article 99 of the Basic Law.
After the constitutional reform of 1990 continued to dispense with a separate state constitutional court, the discussion about it came up again and again. For example, in November 2004 the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament again discussed the establishment of a state constitutional court. Reasons for this consideration include, for example, that even decisions on the admissibility of popular initiatives are only made years after they have been voted on in the state parliament, often in the next electoral term. With effect from October 27, 2006, the state constitution was amended; Article 44, Paragraph 1 now provides for a state constitutional court. This requirement was implemented with the adoption of a State Constitutional Court Act [1] .
The tasks of the State Constitutional Court are regulated in Article 51 of the State Constitution. According to this, the State Constitutional Court is responsible for disputes between organs, judicial review proceedings, local constitutional complaints and complaints against election review decisions. There are still no state constitutional complaints by individuals, although the basic rights of the Basic Law have been incorporated into the state constitution across the board (Article 2a).
The seven members of the State Constitutional Court work part-time. They must be qualified to hold judicial office and are elected by the State Parliament by a two-thirds majority in accordance with Section 6 Paragraph 1 of the State Constitutional Court Act for twelve years each (in the first election pursuant to Article 68, four members for nine years and three members for six years). The members of the State Constitutional Court receive an expense allowance of one-fifteenth of the monthly basic salary of salary group R 9, rounded up to the nearest ten euros, for each month in which they attend at least one meeting or decision-making session. Members of the Constitutional Court were in April 2019 [2] :
In March 2021, the court consisted of: [3]
Lübeck had applied for the seat of the court, citing its centuries-long tradition as a renowned supra-regional court of the Higher Court of Lübeck and the subsequent Higher Appeal Court of the Four Free Cities. [4] However, after a cost-benefit analysis, the Schleswig-Holstein Justice Center Schleswig was awarded the contract, where the Higher Regional Court, the Schleswig-Holstein Administrative Court, the Higher Administrative Court and the State Social Court are already located.
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Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021).
Holstein is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider. It is the southern half of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany.
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The Kiel–Lübeck railway is a non-electrified, mostly single-track railway line in eastern Schleswig-Holstein in north Germany. It links Kiel and Lübeck, the only two large cities in the state. Passenger services on the 81-kilometre route are currently (2010) operated by DB Regio.
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Rudolf Bülck was a German librarian.
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The Constitution of the State of Schleswig-Holstein of December 13, 1949 came into force on January 12, 1950, under the title State Statute for Schleswig-Holstein. A constitutional and parliamentary reform also led to a change in title on June 13, 1990. The current publication of the constitution of the state of Schleswig-Holstein dates from December 2, 2014.