The Federal Constitutional Court

Statutory Provider Information

Address, telephone number, fax

Bundesverfassungsgericht, Schlossbezirk 3, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Postal address: Postfach 1771, 76006 Karlsruhe, Germany
Switchboard: +49 721/9101-0
Fax: 0721/9101-382

E-Mail

Content-related issues: bverfg@bundesverfassungsgericht.de
Technical issues: bverfg-technik@jurix.jura.uni-saarland.de
Visitor service: besucherdienst@bundesverfassungsgericht.de

Important Notice: This channel of communication is reserved exclusively for administrative business. The Federal Constitutional Court informs you that applications and written pleadings relating to Federal Constitutional Court proceedings cannot be submitted by e-mail in a legally effective manner. If your message contains such application or pleading, it is mandatory to send it again by fax (No.: +49 721 9101 382) or by post.
At present it is not possible for administrative reasons to reply by e-mail to all inquiries and requests that are made by e-mail. The users of the e-mail access are therefore asked to give their postal address in addition to their e-mail address.

Oral hearings/Pronouncements of judgments:

The Federal Constitutional Court’s oral hearings and the pronouncements of its judgments are open to the public. Due to the limited number of seats available in the court hall, it is necessary to make a reservation for days of session. Please address your request to:

Mr. Stadtler, Bundesverfassungsgericht, Schlossbezirk 3,
76131 Karlsruhe; Phone: +49 721/9101 400, Fax: +49 721/9101-461.
besucherdienst@bundesverfassungsgericht.de

Responsible under press law and under § 5 of the Telemediengesetz:

for the layout and the content of the information on the Federal Constitutional Court:
Press Department of the Federal Constitutional Court,
Schlossbezirk 3, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany, Fax: +49 721/9101-461
for the content and the correctness of the Court’s decisions presented:
Documentation Department of the Federal Constitutional Court,
Schlossbezirk 3, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany, Fax: +49 721/9101-461

Citation and links to our pages

Suggested citation style for our German language decisions on our web site : BVerfG, [case no .] of [date], [paragraph no.], http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/.
Free for non-commercial use. For commercial use, the Court’s permission is required.

If you want to establish links to specific decisions or text pages, please follow the instructions given here. Please read also our information on our RSS news feeds.

In case of technical problems, especially as regards the printing out of decisions and press releases, please consult the technical advice given here.

Information relating the decision database

The full German texts of the Federal Constitutional Court’s decisions that have been issued since 1 January 1998 are published here. The texts are the official ones; they are identical with the printed versions that the Court mails on request. The decisions are digitally signed. Here you can find information about the how to establish a secure connection to the Federal Constitutional Court’s webserver and how to verify the signatures.

Web-Team

Internet presence in cooperation with the Institute of Law and Informatics at the University of the Saarland (under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Maximilian Herberger, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmut Rüßmann und Prof. Dr. Stephan Weth).

Processing of the contents: Iris Speiser
Layout and design: Hendrik Schöttle (until 2005)
Acessibility: Ralph Hecksteden at suggestions of Mark Obrembalski
Programming and database management: Ralph Hecksteden, Jörg Reichert (until 2004), Christoph Keller (until 2007)
System administration: Mathias Gisch, Christopher Brosch (until 2007), Marc Luuk (until 2006)

Technical Service: bverfg-technik@jurix.jura.uni-saarland.de