Lowenthal, Weissberger and Colibri Lighters, Ld. v. His Majesty's Attorney General - 01.01.1948
- Case number
- R.P.C. LXV 126ff
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Case Description
Validity of German decree that withdrew citizinship from Jew in English law - Case concerned the effectivenes of a patent, the Jewish claimant had lost after his German citizenship was withdrawn by the Nazis
Patents and Designs Acts, 1907-1946, Sec, 18 (6)
- Name of Court
- Chancery Division
- Subjects
- Withdrawal of Citizenship
- Type of Court
- Court of Appeal
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Sep 14, 2022
Bundesgerichtshof - 28.10.1960
- Case number
- IV ZR 45/60
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
Compensation for damage to professional advancement - Plaintiff appealed because the compensation period was too short and the amount of compensation too low. The appeal was rejected because the time limit had expired. § 213 ZPO - Plaintiff emigrated 1937 to Brussels, later to the USA, because of persecution of Jews.
§ 22 RAnwOBrZ v. 10.03.1949, VOBIBrZ 80 § 30 BRAnwO v. 01.08.1959, BGBI. I 565 § 224 BEG § 213 ZPO
- Name of Court
- Bundesgerichtshof 4. Zivilsenat
- Subjects
- Compensation
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Administrative Law
- Date modified
- Oct 17, 2022
Bundesgerichtshof - 22.04.1960
- Case number
- IV ZR 197/59
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
Compensation for damage to freedom, property, health and for damage to professional advancement - Wether his intentions were legal is irrelevant because he was a political opponent of National Socialism by having contact with Jews in the first place. - § 1 BEG - D helped Jews to obtain visas and made it possiblefor them to leave the country. For this he was detained in concentration camps without legal proceedings.
- Name of Court
- Bundesgerichtshof 4. Zivilsenat
- Subjects
- Compensation
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Administrative Law
- Date modified
- Oct 17, 2022
Bundesgerichtshof - 27.01.1960
- Case number
- IV ZR 201/59
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
Compensation for deprivation of liberty - detention within the meaning of § 43 I 2 BEG (Haftentschädigungsanspruch) - § 43 BEG - Imprisonmet of Jews abroad at the instigation of the German National Socialist government.
- Name of Court
- Bundesgerichtshof
- Subjects
- Compensation
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Administrative Law
- Date modified
- Oct 17, 2022
Oberlandesgericht München - 10.02.1971
- Case number
- 12 U 2775/70
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
Injunction by the plaintiff for defamation (Einstweilige Verfügung) - Illustration of a caricature of the plaintiff, the politician Franz Josef Strauss, in which he is depicted with swastika-like dislocated limbs. - The fundamental right of freedom of art is subject to the community reservation of Article 2 (1), second half of the Basic Law and thus has its limits at the rights of others, at the constitutional order and the moral law.
§ 1004 BGB, Art. 5 Abs. 3, Art. 2 Abs. 1 Hs. 2 GG
- Name of Court
- Oberlandesgericht München
- Subjects
- Artistic Freedom
- General right to personality
- Type of Court
- Court of Appeal
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Dec 8, 2022
Bundesgerichtshof - 09.12.1971
- Case number
- IX ZR 2/71
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
Compensation due to the persecution of the claimant's parents (Entschädigung wegen der Verfolgung der Eltern der Klägerin). - On the subsequent notification of individual claims within the context of the procedures for damages to the life of the claimant's parents
§ 189a I BEG
- Name of Court
- Bundesgerichtshof 9. Zivilsenat
- Subjects
- Compensation
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Administrative Law
- Date modified
- Dec 8, 2022
Cour d'appel de Paris - 20.08.1945
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Restitution of a looted business asset (Restitution d’un fond de commerce spolié) – Restitution of business asset to Jew – Sale made under violence, pressure and without any benefit for seller, even if superintendent was not present during sale.
Art. 11 ordonnance du 21 avril 1945
- Name of Court
- Cour d'appel de Paris
- Subjects
- Restitution
- Type of Court
- Court of Appeal
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Jan 29, 2023
Cour d'appel de Bordeaux - 31.07.1945
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Restitution of a looted business asset (Restitution d’un fond de commerce spolié) – sales made by the superintendent of business assets belonging to Jews are null and void – does not matter if Jewish owner was present during sale.
Art. 1 ordonnance du 21 avril 1945
- Name of Court
- Cour d'appel de Bordeaux
- Subjects
- Restitution
- Type of Court
- Court of Appeal
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Jan 29, 2023
Cour d'appel de Toulouse - 12.12.1945
- Case number
- Cour d'appel de Toulouse
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Restitution of a looted business asset (Restitution d’un fond de commerce spolié) – acquisition of a business by a German figurehead for a Jew in 1942 – court decided that Jew is real purchaser of the business.
Art. 11 ordonnance du 21 avril 1945, Art. 17. Ordonnance du 21 avril 1945
- Name of Court
- Cour d'appel de Toulouse
- Subjects
- Restitution
- Type of Court
- Court of Appeal
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Jan 29, 2023
Tribunal civil de la Seine - 03.04.1946
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Matrimonial property regime of separation of property (Régime matrimonial de séparation de biens) – law from 22 July 1941 allowed to request a separation of property between a non-Jewish-spouse and a Jewish-spouse – in 1941 ruling in favor of non-Jewish spouse regarding the separation of property with his Jewish wife – Court confirmed the retroactive abrogation of the judgement from 1941 in application of new ordonnance.
Ordonnance du 9 août 1944 and ordonnance du 21 avril 1945
- Name of Court
- Tribunal civil de la Seine
- Subjects
- Discrimination
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Jan 29, 2023
Cour d'appel de Riom - 29.07.1945
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Restitution of a looted business asset (Restitution d’un fond de commerce spolié) – (No) Annulment of the sale of business asset by the Jewish owner, assisted by the managing commissioner when, already before the war, the interested party had decided to sell his business assets and had taken the first steps in this direction.
Ordonnance du 21 avril 1945
- Name of Court
- Cour d'appel de Riom
- Subjects
- Restitution
- Type of Court
- Court of Appeal
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Jan 29, 2023
Cour de cassation - 09.01.1947
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Restitution (Restitution) - Reintegration of Jewish couple in appartement, in which they where exploiting a business - Superintendent, in charge of their business under Vichy laws, gave the owner of the appartement notice, without the consent of the couple.
Art. 11 Ordonnance du 21 avril 1945
- Name of Court
- Cour de Cassation - Chambre sociale
- Subjects
- Restitution
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Jan 29, 2023
Conseil d'État - 20.07.1947
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Épuration administrative (denanzification) - Cancelation of a decree of the Minister of Justice - Removal of a judge of a court of first instance for collaboration with the enemy and severe judgments in application of the racial laws.
Ordonnance du 27 juin 1944, Ordonnance du 31 Juillet 1945
- Name of Court
- Conseil d'État
- Subjects
- Denazification
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Administrative Law
- Date modified
- Jan 29, 2023
Rex v. Caunt - 01.11.1947
- Case number
- unreported
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Case Description
Incitement - publisher of an antisemitic article in "The Morecambe and Heysham Visitor" is indicted for seditious libel - context of violence against British soldiers in Palestine - defendant is acquitted after persuading the jury that the article was not meant as an incitement to violence against British Jews
- Name of Court
- Liverpool Assizes
- Subjects
- Freedom of Speech
- Hate Speech and Incitement
- Israel-related Incidents
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Date modified
- Jan 30, 2023
Marylebone Magistrates Court - 08.01.1965
- Case number
- unreported
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Case Description
Insulting Behaviour - Jewish Taxi driver is tried for insulting the well-known Nazi Françoise Jordan and destroying her swastika necklace
Section 5 Public Order Act 1986
- Name of Court
- Marylebone Magistrates Court
- Subjects
- Discrimination
- Insult
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Date modified
- Jan 31, 2023
Bow Street Magistrate's Court - 20.08.1962
- Case number
- unreported
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Case Description
Breach of the peace - Trial against two persons who were speakers at the National Socialist Meeting on July 1 1962 in Trafalgar Square - Public Order Act 1936, Section 5
- Name of Court
- Bow Street Magistrate's Court
- Subjects
- Freedom of Speech
- Hate Speech and Incitement
- Insult
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Date modified
- Jan 31, 2023
Reg. v Dukes, Chant, Rainbird, Hughes, Sparks, Gordon - 15.02.1966
- Case number
- unreported
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Case Description
Arson - Trial against six individuals who were involved in setting the Ilford District Synagogue and Lea Bridge Road Synagogue in London on fire - context of the Nazi Group 62.
Sec. 1, Malicious Damage Act, 1861
- Name of Court
- Central Criminal Court
- Subjects
- Attack on Jewish Places of Worship
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Date modified
- Jan 31, 2023
Central Criminal Court - 19.04.1966
- Case number
- unreported
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Case Description
Stabbing of old Jewish man - 14-year old boy on trial for the stabbing of an older man returning from Synagogue along Fairholt Road, Stoke Newington
- Name of Court
- Central Criminal Court
- Subjects
- Pogroms and Violent Attacks on Persons
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Date modified
- Jan 31, 2023
Reg. v Pollard, Jordan - 25.01.1967
- Case number
- unreported
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Case Description
Conspiracy - Trial against two individuals from the British National Socialist Movement - the accusations included daubings on the Plymouth Synagogue and the distribution of leaflets Section 6 Race Relations Act 1965
- Name of Court
- Exeter Assize
- Subjects
- Attack on Jewish Places of Worship
- Hate Speech and Incitement
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Date modified
- Jan 31, 2023
Central Criminal Court - 05.04.1966
- Case number
- unreported
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Case Description
Arson - Trial against five individuals setting fire to multiple London Synagogues, among them Brondesbury Synagogue on 13 March 1965 and Bayswater Synagogue on 30 June 1965 - Context of the Nazi Group 62
Sec. 1, Malicious Damage Act, 1861
- Name of Court
- Central Criminal Court
- Subjects
- Attack on Jewish Places of Worship
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Date modified
- Jan 31, 2023
Bundesverfassungsgericht - 23.10.1952
- Case number
- 1 BvB 1/51
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
Banning of the Sozialistische Reichspartei, SRP (Verbot der Sozialistischen Reichtspartei, SRP) - Court characterises party as a successor to the NSDAP - details the antisemitic attitute and goals of the party
Art 21 II GG, Art 9 II GG
- Name of Court
- Bundesverfassungsgericht
- Subjects
- Prohibition of Symbols, Parties & Associations
- Type of Court
- Constitutional Court
- Area of Law
- Constitutional Law
- Date modified
- Jan 31, 2023
Bundesverfassungsgericht - 23.10.1952
- Case number
- 1 BvB 1/51
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
Banning of the Sozialistische Reichspartei, SRP (Verbot der Sozialistischen Reichtspartei, SRP) - Court characterises party as a successor to the NSDAP - details the antisemitic attitute and goals of the party
Art 21 II GG, Art 9 II GG
- Name of Court
- Bundesverfassungsgericht
- Subjects
- Prohibition of Symbols, Parties & Associations
- Type of Court
- Constitutional Court
- Area of Law
- Constitutional Law
- Date modified
- Jan 31, 2023
Bundesverfassungsgericht - 11.11.2021
- Case number
- 1 BvR 11/20
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
Free speech and general right to personality (Meinungsäußerungsfreiheit und Allgemeines Persönlichkeitsrecht) - question whether singer can be called an antisemite
Art. 5 Abs. 1 Satz 1 GG, Art. 2 Abs. 1 GG, § 1004 Abs. 1 und § 823 Abs. 2 BGB iVm § 186 StGB, § 193 StGB
- Name of Court
- Bundesverfassungsgericht
- Subjects
- Artistic Freedom
- Freedom of Speech
- General right to personality
- Type of Court
- Constitutional Court
- Area of Law
- Constitutional Law
- Date modified
- Jan 31, 2023
Tribunal civil de la Seine - 17.12.1946
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Restitution (Restitution de biens spoliées) – non application of art. 11 of the ordonnance from the 21 April 1945 because of fictious "aryanisation" of a company owned by a Jew by the distribution of shares by himself among non-Jews.
Art. 11 Ordonnance du 21 avril 1945
- Name of Court
- Tribunal civil de la Seine
- Subjects
- Restitution
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Feb 1, 2023
Tribunal civil de la Seine - 22.01.1947
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Every human being, regardless of race, religion or belief, has inalienable and sacred rights (Tout être humain, sans distinction de race, de religion ou de croyance, possède des droist inalienable et sacrés) - Clause in a will, by which a woman stipulates: "If my granddaughter marries a Jew, I revoke the legacy made to her and I dispose of it for the benefit of the X work..." must be declared null and void - Violation of the rules of public order as they result from the Ordonnance of August 9, 1944, and violation of the Constitution of the French Republic (1946), which proclaims that every human being, without distinction of race, religion or belief, has inalienable and sacred rights.
Ordonnance du 9 août 1944 and Constitution 1946
- Name of Court
- Tribunal civil de la Seine
- Subjects
- Discrimination
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Feb 1, 2023
Cour de cassation - 06.12.1951
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Acts prejudicial to national defence (des actes de nature à nuire à la défense nationale) – Antisemitic and pro-nazi writer during the German occupation of France – Overturning of the judgement of 20 April 1951 of the Military Court of Paris – The amnesty law does not apply to acts detrimental to national defense.
Art. 25 loi du 26 août 1947
- Name of Court
- Cour de cassation
- Subjects
- Hate Speech and Incitement
- Other
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Date modified
- Feb 1, 2023
Cour d'appel de Montpellier - 21.11.1950
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Restitution of property, rights or interests (Restitution de biens, droits ou intérêts) - Spoliation of a Jew - When the nullity of the spoliation is recognized, the spoliated owner takes back his goods, rights or interests with their increases and accessories.
Art. 2 Ordonnance du 21 Avril 1945
- Name of Court
- Cour d'appel de Montpellier
- Subjects
- Restitution
- Type of Court
- Court of Appeal
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Date modified
- Feb 1, 2023
Oberlandesgericht Nürnberg - 22.10.2019
- Case number
- 3 U 1523/18
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
General Right to personality and freedom of speech (Meinungsäußerungsfreiheit und Allgemeines Persönlichkeitsrecht) - question whether a singer can be called an antisemite
§ 823 Abs. 1, § 1004 Abs. 1 S. 2 BGB; Art. 1 Abs. 1, 2 Abs. 1, Art. 5 Abs. 1 GG; Art. 8 Abs. 1, Art. 10 EMRK
- Name of Court
- Oberlandesgericht Nürnberg
- Subjects
- Artistic Freedom
- Freedom of Speech
- General right to personality
- Type of Court
- Court of Appeal
- Area of Law
- Civil Law
- Constitutional Law
- Date modified
- Feb 2, 2023
Amtsgericht Gotha - 16.06.2010
- Case number
- 551 Js 327727/08 91 Ds
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
Disturbance of the peace of the dead (Störung der Totenruhe) and incitement of hatred (Volksverhetzung) - Trial against two defendants who desecrated the Jewish Cemetery in Gotha in 2008 and denied the number of deaths of the Shoah
§§ 168 Abs 2 i.V.m. Abs. 1, 130 Abs. 1, Ziff. 2, Abs. 3 i.V.m. § 6 Abs. 1 V StGB, 25 Abs. 2, 52, 53, StGB
- Name of Court
- Amtsgericht Gotha
- Subjects
- Cemetery Desecration
- Holocaust Denial & Trivialisation
- Type of Court
- Court of first instance
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Date modified
- Feb 7, 2023
Bundesgerichtshof - 09.03.1972
- Case number
- IX ZR 329/69
- Country
- Germany: Federal Republic of Germany (1949-today)
- Case Description
Application for compensation for emigration costs, transfer loss and damage caused by squandering (Antrag auf Ersatz von Auswanderungskosten, Transferverlust und Verschleuderungsschaden) - Art. I No. 38 a BEG SchlußG, by referring to §56 (2) BEG, establishes a claim within the meaning of Art. III No. 3 BEG Final Act. § 57 Abs. 1 Satz 2 BEG, Art. III Nr. 3 BEG-SchlußG
- Name of Court
- Bundesgerichtshof 9. Zivilsenat
- Subjects
- Compensation
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Administrative Law
- Date modified
- Feb 13, 2023