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22: 478: 197:(SMA)). On 17 July 1945, the SMAD issued Order No. 17, which established a judicial system in the Soviet occupation zone. The German Central Administration for Justice (German: Deutsche Zentralverwaltung für Justiz (DJV)) was subsequently founded in November 1945, with the SMAD appointing 146:
of the united Germany, and the justice ministries of the six new federal states. The Ministry was housed at 93 Dorothea Street (Dorotheenstraße 93), the former offices of the Weimar and Nazi Interior Ministry. It published the journal
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Max Fechner was appointed the first Minister of Justice. By this time, the judiciary had already been brought into line with communist policy. Though mentioned in the
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of the Eastern Zone were abolished, and their Justice Ministries became part of the central ministry. After speaking critically of the prosecution of strikers in the
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In 1963, the power of the ministry was weakened by a decree which transferred responsibility for control of the courts to the
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as a nominally independent state, the DJV was transformed into the Ministry of Justice.
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as their first DJV president, though he was dismissed and replaced in 1948 with
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and dissolved in 1990. Its duties were subsequently taken up by the federal
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People's Judges) also helped to bring the courts closer to the
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Justizministerium der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik
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Ministry of Justice of the German Democratic Republic
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