The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

In German, the names to statutes are abbreviated using embedded capitals, e. g. StGB ( Strafgesetzbuch ) for criminal code, PatG ( Patentgesetz ) for Patent Act or the very common GmbH ( Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung ) for Company with Limited Liability.

* Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, the first body of German criminal law

Because the Allies had indicated that they were going to pursue criminal charges for German war crimes, Hitler tried to gain the loyalty and silence of his subordinates by making them all parties to the planned genocide.

The first description of civil, criminal and procedural law for a city in Germany in the German language, the Ordeelbook ( Ordeel: sentence ) was written by the solicitor of the senate of Hamburg, Jordan von Boitzenburg, in 1270.

Volksverhetzung is punishable in Germany even if committed abroad and even if committed by non-German citizens, if only the incitement of hatred takes effect within German territory, e. g. the seditious sentiment was expressed in German writ or speech and made accessible in Germany ( German criminal code's Principle of Ubiquity, Section 9 § 1 Alt.

The German government had therefore decided to assimilate them with the criminal elements of the population.

He was thus the only German to be accused of being a war criminal after both world wars.

In opposition to the German submissions, the United States argued that the Vienna Convention did not grant rights to individuals, only to states ; that the convention was meant to be exercised subject to the laws of each state party, which in the case of the United States meant subject to the doctrine of procedural default ; and that Germany was seeking to turn the ICJ into an international court of criminal appeal.

The experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.

Although acquitted at Nuremberg, von Papen was reclassified as a war criminal in 1947 by a German de-Nazification court, and sentenced to eight years ' hard labour.

However, there is no exact equivalent of a guilty plea in German criminal procedure.

* 20-Theo Berger, 62, German criminal.

The events in the autumn of 1977, possibly the biggest criminal and political showdown that Germany has experienced since the end of World War II, are frequently referred to as Der Deutsche Herbst (" German Autumn ").

** Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 1979 )

** Karl Hass, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 2004 )

* January 25 – Theo Berger, German criminal

** Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal ( d. 1962 )

** Ilse Koch, Nazi German war criminal ( b. 1906 )

* February 7 – Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal ( b. 1911 )

Karl Brandt ( January 8, 1904 – June 2, 1948 ) was a German Nazi war criminal.

The music was cheap and repetitive and not to Holst's liking, and he referred to this kind of work as " worming " ( a pun on Wurm's name, which means " worm " in German ) and regarded it as " criminal ".

Austrian German is the only variety of a pluricentric language recognized under international law / EU primary law.

The constitutional law in Germany is ruled in the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany ( German Grundgesetz, ) from 23. 05. 1949.

German authorities announced further investigations about the contaminations and an eventual violation of the food law.

Christian Goldbach ( March 18, 1690 – November 20, 1764 ) was a German mathematician who also studied law.

In 1050, German monasteries were great centers of learning and art and German schools of theology and canon law were unsurpassed and probably unmatched anywhere in Europe.

It uses the highest possible concentration of caffeine for beverages allowed by German law ( 25 mg / 100ml ) and is available in most of Germany, as well as parts of western and central Europe.

In 1827, the German scientist Georg Ohm expressed his law in this famous book " Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet " ( The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically ) in which he gave his complete theory of electricity.

The Convention is drafted in broad terms, in a similar ( albeit more modern ) manner to the English Bill of Rights, the American Bill of Rights, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man or the first part of the German Basic law.

Luther controversially added the word " alone " ( allein in German ) to so that it read: " thus, we hold, then, that man is justified without doing the works of the law, alone through faith ".

According to Plenge, the " ideas of 1789 " that included rights of man, democracy, individualism and liberalism were being rejected in favour of " the ideas of 1914 " that included " German values " of duty, discipline, law, and order.

Like most Indo-European roots in the Germanic languages, it was altered by Grimm's law, so that Indo-European / p / > / f /, and / d / > / t /, as the German cognate furzen also manifests.

The spokesperson for family law and children, Alan Shatter TD, robustly defended its proposals as the only means of reducing public expenditure, and providing a service in Ireland more akin to the German, Dutch and Canadian health systems.

The reaction to Napoleon's conquests of German countries during the era of the French Revolution ( 1790s to 1815 ), produced important institutional reforms, including the abolition of feudal restrictions on the sale of large landed estates, the reduction of the power of the guilds in the cities, and the introduction of a new, more efficient commercial law.

It was only due to a temporary modification of German election law, applying the five-percent " hurdle " separately in East and West Germany, that the Greens acquired any parliamentary seats at all.

Similar criticisms of the " law " ( or " at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes ") have been made by Glenn Greenwald.

The problem of the controversy between the spirit and the letter of the law, in Germany, has been brought back to public attention due to the trials of former East German soldiers who guarded the Berlin Wall — the so-called necessity of following orders.

This represented a radical departure from German tradition, which held that law enforcement was ( mostly ) a Land ( state ) and local matter.

In 1897, German doctor and writer Magnus Hirschfeld formed the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee to campaign publicly against the notorious law " Paragraph 175 ", which made sex between men illegal.

The towns began to establish municipal rights and liberties ( see German town law ).

The addition Nationis Germanicæ ( of German Nation ) to the emperor's title appeared first in the 15th century: in a 1486 law decreed by Friedrich III and in 1512 in reference to the Reichstag in Cologne by Maximilian I.

After World War II, he studied law and economics at the universities of Halle and Leipzig ( 1946 – 1949 ) and joined the East German Liberal Democratic Party ( LDPD ) in 1946.