About publicly appoin­ted, sworn auc­tion­eers

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Qua­li­fied advice on the imple­men­ta­ti­on of lien rea­liza­ti­on is based on many years of prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence and legal requi­re­ments as well as exten­si­ve know-how in various sub­ject are­as and pro­duct clas­ses.

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Publicly appoin­ted, sworn auc­tion­eers — insti­tu­ti­on and part­ners

In the Ger­man legal sys­tem, the gene­ral­ly publicly appoin­ted, sworn auc­tion­eer is the insti­tu­ti­on that is respon­si­ble for fin­ding a fair solu­ti­on for all par­ties in the short term in the event of default on con­tracts due to sta­tu­to­ry or con­trac­tu­al pled­ges of rights. The legal posi­ti­on is defi­ned as an ext­ra­ju­di­cial, neu­tral aut­ho­ri­ty bet­ween cre­di­tor and deb­tor. The publicly appoin­ted, sworn auc­tion­eer safe­guards the rights of the par­ties invol­ved. When car­ry­ing out this task, the auc­tion­eer must obser­ve the VerstV, BGB, HGB, GewO, PfandlVO, AktG and GmbHG. Com­pared to judi­cial sei­zu­re pro­cee­dings under the Ger­man Code of Civil Pro­ce­du­re (ZPO), the pro­ce­du­re is less stan­dar­di­zed.

The imple­men­ting pro­vi­si­ons for the bai­liff or judi­cial offi­cer — GVGA, Com­pul­so­ry Auc­tion Act or ZPO are not rele­vant for him. This free­dom allows the pro­ce­du­re to be car­ri­ed out in a prag­ma­tic and com­mer­ci­al­ly ori­en­ted man­ner. Many entre­pre­neurs, lawy­ers or pri­va­te indi­vi­du­als often no lon­ger have the advan­ta­ges made pos­si­ble by the con­sis­tent imple­men­ta­ti­on of the pledge of rights “on their radar”.

As a “pro­blem-sol­ving insti­tu­ti­on”, DEUT­SCHE PFAND­VER­WER­TUNG is your relia­ble part­ner for the simp­le and effec­ti­ve pro­ces­sing of col­la­te­ral enforce­ment in com­pli­ance with legal requi­re­ments.

Neu­tral aut­ho­ri­ty
Public auc­tions are con­duc­ted on the basis of con­trac­tu­al or sta­tu­to­ry pled­ges of rights. The­se pled­ges of rights come into force by law or con­tract. No fur­ther judi­cial review is requi­red. The publicly appoin­ted sworn auc­tion­eer is sworn to be inde­pen­dent in the pro­cee­dings. He is the only aut­ho­ri­ty in the rea­liza­ti­on pro­cess who must also pro­tect the rights of the deb­tor in the pro­cee­dings.

Pre­re­qui­si­tes
Public auc­tions (lien sales and distress sales) requi­re spe­cial exper­ti­se and relia­bi­li­ty becau­se the­se auc­tions are orde­red or car­ri­ed out by force and becau­se the respec­ti­ve owner of the auc­tion­ed pro­per­ty can­not influence the pri­ce and the mini­mum bid. The owner must the­r­e­fo­re be able to rely on the fact that their pro­per­ty inte­rests will be repre­sen­ted in a par­ti­cu­lar­ly qua­li­fied man­ner at the auc­tion. Public auc­tions may the­r­e­fo­re only be con­duc­ted by publicly appoin­ted auc­tion­eers. The appoint­ment can be gene­ral or limi­t­ed to cer­tain types of auc­tions — e.g. spe­cial sub­ject are­as such as car­pets, art, machi­nery, land (source: IHK Frank­furt).

Defi­ni­ti­on of public auc­tion: If the requi­re­ments of Sec­tion 383 (3) BGB are met, an auc­tion is con­side­red a “public auc­tion”. Public auc­tions must be announ­ced to the public, sta­ting the time, place and gene­ral details of the items in accordance with Sec­tion 1237 BGB. All per­sons with legal capa­ci­ty must be given the oppor­tu­ni­ty to attend in per­son.

Qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on for public appoint­ment
The pre­re­qui­si­te for public appoint­ment is spe­cial exper­ti­se and pro­fes­sio­nal expe­ri­ence. Spe­cial pro­fes­sio­nal expe­ri­ence means that the auc­tion­eer has work­ed as an auc­tion­eer for seve­ral years (usual­ly 5 years) and has con­duc­ted seve­ral auc­tions per year wit­hout any com­plaints. In most cases, the auc­tion­eer has suc­cessful­ly com­ple­ted a com­mer­cial app­ren­ti­ce­ship, a degree from a uni­ver­si­ty of appli­ed sci­en­ces or a reco­gni­zed uni­ver­si­ty. Spe­cial exper­ti­se is unders­tood to mean abo­ve-avera­ge spe­cia­list know­ledge and expe­ri­ence. The publicly appoin­ted, sworn auc­tion­eer must be fami­li­ar with all rele­vant pro­vi­si­ons of the Indus­tri­al Code, the Auc­tion­eers Ordi­nan­ce, the Ger­man Com­mer­cial Code (HGB), the Ger­man Civil Code (BGB), the Ger­man Stock Cor­po­ra­ti­on Act (AktG) and the Ger­man Limi­t­ed Lia­bi­li­ty Com­pa­nies Act (GmbHG), inso­far as the­se regu­la­te the respon­si­bi­li­ties, rights and obli­ga­ti­ons of an auc­tion­eer. As a rule, he has suc­cessful­ly pas­sed an IHK exami­na­ti­on. Fur­ther­mo­re, the appli­cant must have a par­ti­cu­lar­ly relia­ble and trust­wor­t­hy cha­rac­ter (source: IHK Frank­furt).

The rea­liza­ti­on of a lien is a sove­reign act and is car­ri­ed out accor­ding to a regu­la­ted pro­ce­du­re. The auc­tion must be held in public (§ 1235 BGB). The gene­ral­ly publicly appoin­ted, sworn auc­tion­eer is aut­ho­ri­zed to car­ry out the rea­liza­ti­on of liens. The auc­tion­eer is aut­ho­ri­zed to rea­li­ze all types of pled­ged objects and rights by public auc­tion or, under spe­cial cir­cum­s­tances, by pri­va­te sale. If the auc­tion­eer is only publicly appoin­ted and sworn in for cer­tain types of auc­tions (e.g. machi­nes, works of art or stamps), he may also only con­duct auc­tions to a limi­t­ed ext­ent. If other per­sons are com­mis­sio­ned, the­re is no public auc­tion within the mea­ning of Sec­tion 383 of the Ger­man Civil Code (BGB) The public auc­tio­ning of mova­ble pro­per­ty and secu­ri­ties on the basis of sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons (see: Marx/Arens, Der Ver­stei­ge­rer).