[1] The court is mainly responsible for deciding the following types of claims: The Constitution of Berlin of 1 September 1950 contained in its Article 72 a mandate to establish a state constitutional court for Berlin.

[7] But even before the first election of judges for the newly established court, scheduled for 21 February 1991, the law had to be amended.

[7] The main reason for this were the rules on the compensation of the court's judges which were deemed to be unreasonably generous.

[10] The decision of 12 January 1993 (VerfGH 55/92),[α] that the prosecution of Erich Honecker, the former Chairman of the State Council of East Germany, was incompatible with human dignity as enshrined in Article 1 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany due to his state of health, caused considerable controversy.

[15] Only persons who have reached the age of 35 and are eligible for election to the Bundestag may serve as judges of the court.