Public Prosecutor General (Germany)

Public Prosecutor General of the Federal Republic of Germany
Der Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof
Federal Minister of Justice
Appointer	President of Germany
Constituting instrument	Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz (Jurisdiction Act)
Inaugural holder	Carlo Wiechmann
Formation	1950
Website	generalbundesanwalt.de

The Public Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice (

). The Public Prosecutor General also represents Germany in certain civil and administrative cases.

The

The Public Prosecutor General is considered a political official. He is supposed to share the criminal and security policy views and objectives of the respective acting federal government and can be recalled without outspoken reasons at any time. He is subject to the supervision of the Federal Minister of Justice.

In 1977, then-Public Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback was assassinated by an extremist left-wing group, the Red Army Faction.

Location, premises

From 1950 until 1998, the office of the Public Prosecutor General shared a building in Karlsruhe with the

Organization

The GBA is supported by a Deputy Public Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice (Stellvertretender Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof) and several Federal Prosecutors at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesanwälte beim Bundesgerichtshof), Senior Public Prosecutors at the Federal Court of Justice (Oberstaatsanwälte beim Bundesgerichtshof) and Public Prosecutors at the Federal Court of Justice (Staatsanwälte beim Bundesgerichtshof). He has a staff of about 300, of whom about 110 are permanently assigned public prosecutors and about 50 public prosecutors or judges from the federal states, who are usually seconded for three years.[3]

The office of the Public Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice is organized as follows:

• Directorate ZS: central services (5 departments); espionage; crimes under the Foreign Trade and Payments Act, crimes under the War Weapons Control Act, international criminal law (5 departments)
• Directorate Appeals: appeals at the Federal Court of Justice (7 departments)
• Directorate TE: terrorism (11 departments)^[4]

List of Public Prosecutors General since 1950

Carlo Wiechmann [de]	1950–1956
Max Güde [de]	1956–1961
Wolfgang Fränkel [de]	1962
Ludwig Martin	1963–1974
Siegfried Buback	1974–1977
Kurt Rebmann	1977–1990
Alexander von Stahl	1990–1993
Kay Nehm	1994–2006
Monika Harms	2006–2011
Harald Range	2011–2015
Peter Frank	2015–2023
Jens Rommel [de]	2024–present[5]

References

External links

• Official website

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