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Honorary judges are citizens who take part in court proceedings and contribute to the court's decision.
If you are elected as an honorary judge, you must accept the office. Exceptions to this are possible.
As an honorary judge, you should contribute experience, knowledge and judgements from your everyday life to the hearings and deliberations.
The same principles apply to you as to professional judges:
The chambers of the administrative courts decide with three professional judges and two honorary judges, unless a single judge decides.
Honorary judges do not take partin decisionsmade outside the oral hearing or in court decisions.
There are administrative courts (VG) in Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Sigmaringen and Stuttgart. They are responsible for administrative law disputes from the respective administrative districtadministrative district.
The VG Sigmaringen is responsible for the administrative district of Tübingen.
The Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim and the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig decide on appeals.
an election committee consisting of
The following are excluded from office
Note: Persons who have fallen into financial difficulties should not be appointed as honorary judges.
Honorary judges cannot be appointed due to the principle of separation of powers, among other reasons:
An election committee appoints you as an honorary judge on the basis of nomination lists.
The districts and independent cities draw up these lists of nominees.
You will be elected as an honorary judge for a term of five years.
The president of the administrative court determines the required number of honorary judges.
Each of them shall attend a maximum of twelve ordinarydays of regular sessions per year.
No special expertise or prior knowledge is required.
You can only refuse to be appointed to this office in exceptional cases.
The following are authorised to do so:
Please note: In cases of particular hardship, you can apply to be exempted from holding the office be exempted from taking up the post.
This is the case, for example, in the event of
The decision is made by the competent senate of the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg.
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Honorary judges receive compensation for their work.
This includes
Grundgesetz (GG):
Verwaltungsgerichtsordnung (VwGO):
Deutsches Richtergesetz (DRiG):
Landesrichter- und -staatsanwaltsgesetz (LRiStAG):
Justizvergütungs- und -entschädigungsgesetz (JVEG):
machine generated, based on the German release by: Justizministerium Baden-Württemberg, 10.04.2025
