Supreme Court of East Germany

The Supreme Court of the German Democratic Republic (German: Oberstes Gericht der DDR) was the highest judicial organ of the GDR.

The building now houses the district court in Berlin, Germany 2 Instance and the District Court Berlin-Mitte.

In the early days, 14 judges made up the court.

[1]Among the responsibilities of the court included Later other tasks were added, mainly due to the process of simplification which is attributable to the pace of DDR-Justiz.

Neither separate constitutional court nor special administrative, social and financial court systems existed in the GDR, with constitutional review vested in the People's Chamber as a legislative rather than judicial function.

Supreme Court in 1963