The Concordat Case
Federal Republic of Germany Federal Constitutional Court
6 BVerfGE 309 (1957)
- Written by Mary Katherine Cunningham, JD
Facts
In 1933, the government of Nazi Germany entered a concordat with the Vatican to provide religious education in public schools and confessional schools for Catholic children. Lower Saxony, a state in the Federal Republic of Germany, was traditionally a Protestant-majority state. In 1954, the government of Lower Saxony (defendant) began providing secular education for all children. The federal government (plaintiff) challenged the provision of secular education for all children in Lower Saxony. The federal government argued the educational policy of Lower Saxony violated the international concordat entered in 1933. The federal government argued the government of Lower Saxony effectively infringed upon foreign policy, a sphere of government reserved to the federal government.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Per curiam)
What to do next…
Here's why 899,000 law students have relied on our case briefs:
- Written by law professors and practitioners, not other law students. 47,000 briefs, keyed to 994 casebooks. Top-notch customer support.
- The right amount of information, includes the facts, issues, rule of law, holding and reasoning, and any concurrences and dissents.
- Access in your classes, works on your mobile and tablet. Massive library of related video lessons and high quality multiple-choice questions.
- Easy to use, uniform format for every case brief. Written in plain English, not in legalese. Our briefs summarize and simplify; they don’t just repeat the court’s language.
