The Reichsgerichtsgebäude in Leipzig

The Reichsgericht (Court of the German Empire) was the highest court of the Deutsches Reich. Deutsches Reich was the name for Germany from 1871 to 1945 in the German language. It was established on October 1, 1879 when the Reichsjustizgesetze came into effect, building a widely regarded body of jurisprudence. ^[1]

During the rise of the Nazi regime, the Reichsgericht was enlisted to support the Nazi agenda. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German During and after the Nazi period, it received criticism for the ease, and even willingness, with which it transitioned. It provided the highest level of formal legal justification for Nazi programs. ^[2] Immediately after the end of World War II the Reichsgericht was dissolved, and reformed into the german High Court for the Unified Economic Region, the occupation zones of France, Great Britain and the United States. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Allied powers who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II divided the country west of the Oder-Neisse line into four occupation zones for administrative

Located in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, the Reichsgericht building was designed by Ludwig Hoffmann, and construction was completed in 1895. It is designed in the Italian renaissance style and features two large courtyards, a central cupola and a large portico at the entrance. Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe in which there was a ^[3]

After the reunification, the former Reichsgericht building in Leipzig was made the seat of the Bundesverwaltungsgericht. This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong The Federal Administrative Court ( Bundesverwaltungsgericht) is one of the five federal Supreme courts of Germany.

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