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Recent Legal Developments in Germany: Infant Circumcision and Church Tax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2012

Gerhard Robbers
Gerhard Robbers*
Affiliation:
Professor of Public Law, University of Trier
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Extract

During the course of 2012 two significant developments occurred in Germany that are of wider interest for those who study law and religion internationally. This brief note draws attention to a decision from Cologne that was probably wrongly decided, the effect of which will be reversed by amended legislation, and to a directive from the Catholic Bishops' Conference concerning the excommunication of those Catholics who decline to pay their church tax.

Keywords

Germanyhuman rightscircumcisionchurch taxCatholic Church
Type
Comment
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 69 - 71
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2013

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References

1 The judgment can be found (in German) on the folowing website: <http://www.justiz.nrw.de/nrwe/lgs/koeln/lg_koeln/j2012/151_Ns_169_11_Urteil_20120507.html>, accessed 8 October 2012.

2 See (in German) <http://www.dbk.de/fileadmin/redaktion/diverse_downloads/presse/2012-145a-Allgemeines-Dekret-Kirchenaustritt_Dekret.pdf>, accessed 8 October 2012.

3 BVerwG, 26.09.2012 – 6 C 7.12. See further (in German) <http://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Gericht=BVerwG&Datum=26.09.2012&Aktenzeichen=6%20C%207.12>, accessed 8 October 2012.