Public Prosecutor General (Germany)

Location, premises

From 1950 until 1998, the office of the Public Prosecutor General shared a building in Karlsruhe with the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice). Since then it is in a new building on the site of the former "Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabrik" [German arms and munitions factory], now the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers.

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.

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)

List of Public Prosecutors General since 1950

References

References

1. "Courts Constitution Act (Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz – GVG)".
2. "Der Generalbundesanwalt - Seat".
3. "Der Generalbundesanwalt - Über uns".
4. "Der Generalbundesanwalt - Organigramm".
5. "Der Generalbundesanwalt - Übersichtsseite Generalbundesanwalt".