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Bavaria reduces the district courts for detention pending deportation to just nine!
Bavaria's Ministry of Justice is combining deportation detention proceedings in Erding and eight other local courts in order to speed up proceedings.
Bavaria reduces the district courts for detention pending deportation to just nine!
In Bavaria, there will be a significant change in the judicial landscape, especially with regard to detention pending deportation. From September 1, 2025, Bavarian Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich is planning to pool the responsible local courts. To date, 73 local courts in Bavaria have been responsible for these proceedings; in the future there will only be nine. This is reported by the South German newspaper.
The new courts are Hof, Passau, Kempten, Ingolstadt, Rosenheim, Laufen, Weiden, Cham and Erding. This decision was adopted by the Council of Ministers in order to improve coordination between the courts, the police and the immigration authorities and to speed up the procedures overall. How the Passauer Neue Presse reports, the step was necessary because many district courts only processed a handful of cases and specialization was therefore hardly possible. In fact, 42 of the 73 courts had ten or fewer cases each year.
More burden for the Erding district court
The Erding district court, which was selected as one of the nine remaining courts, will have to expect an additional rush. From September, all proceedings from the previously responsible districts of Dachau, Ebersberg, Freising, Fürstenfeldbruck, Landshut and Starnberg will be added to the Erdbinger cases. According to current data, 285 procedures relating to deportation detention have already been processed in Erding in 2023, and 114 more are planned for 2024.
Detention pending deportation primarily affects migrants who are required to leave the country, which often leads to longer periods of deprivation of liberty without a court ruling. This administrative deprivation of liberty aims to ensure the impending deportation, as shown anwalt.de is described.
Procedure and legal basis
The new regulation stipulates that the most important proceedings will be pooled in specialist courts in order to ensure more efficient processing. In recent years, a total of over 5,000 procedures have been treated annually in Bavaria; In 2022 alone there were around 5,280, while the numbers for 2023 were reduced to around 4,539, which also illustrates the importance of the reform. The complexity of these procedures and the urgent nature often require a quick decision, and existing structures have not optimally supported these needs.
What will happen next with the new regulation remains exciting. The increase in functions at the Erding District Court will only take place gradually - so far only an increase of half a position is planned. In addition, the introduction of software to support passenger rights is expected, which, in combination with AI-supported systems, will support the judges. But the decisions are still made by people.
The structural changes in the Bavarian justice system are also a response to the challenges that detention pending deportation brings with it. A strong focus on efficiency and professionalism will be crucial in the future.