AllegroTrans Jan 23, 2012:

Asker It would help enormously if you could tell us from your document what this person's function in the proceedings was. Did he/she attend? Represent a party? Intervene in the case? Advise the Court? Can you give us the text containing the word?

Claus Sprick Jan 21, 2012:

Amtsin*struk*tor cannot possibly be a Clerk of a German Court. There is no such title in Germany. Amtsin*spek*tor: yes (maybe a "Rechtspfleger" who is also entitled to act as "Urkundsbeamter".

"XXX, Justizinspektorin als Urkundsbeamter der Geschäftsstelle" would typically appear just above the heading URTEIL or BESCHLUSS of a German Court order or judgment.

"located in *Oberpfland*, Germany": does not exist. Another typo? OberPFALZ?

District Court (Landgericht) ? Highly improbable if this is a German divorce case, as only Amtsgerichte (Familiengerichte) are competent for family matters (appeal: Oberlandesgericht).

Do you have the case number of the Court's decision (something like 36 F 123/09 ?) If it contains an "F", it is a family case before a Local Court = Amtsgericht (Familiengericht), "UF" being the appeal instance = Oberlandesgericht.
If the letter is "C", it's a normal civil case before an Amtsgericht, if it's "O", the same before a Landgericht, "U" designating the Oberlandesgericht as appeal instance.

(I should know, having been a Judge of the German Supreme Court -BGH-, Senate for Family Matters, for 15 years)

AllegroTrans Jan 21, 2012:

Giving a complete sentence containing the word may help

swisstell (asker) Jan 21, 2012:

Amtsinspektor this does NOT concern Switzerland at all. The District Court in questoin (and its Amtsinstruktorin) are located in der Oberpfland, Germany.

Rolf Kern Jan 20, 2012:

Betriebsbeamter Offenbar eine andere Bezeichnung für Amtsinstruktor. Vielleich hilft das.

Kim Metzger Jan 20, 2012:

No source text? Translators prefer to work with source text. Doesn't the term occur in a sentence or two? In what way is this term related to a "university program"?

Claus Sprick Jan 20, 2012:

Swiss court? might be the Swiss equivalent to Amtsinspektor

http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=amtsinstruktor&source=...

Daniel Gebauer Jan 20, 2012:

According to Duden "Instruktor" is the Swiss form for "Instrukteur" who is a person who instructs, trains, coaches others. So it would be an "official instructor". BTW most of those who appear in Google seem to have retired. I guess this title has become obsolet.
Maybe this helps: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/rei/documenti/rete/profe...

http://screencast.com/t/opZpW6DYaTv

Claus Sprick Jan 20, 2012:

TYPO: Amtsinspektor? http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtsinspektor

bezeichnet die Besoldungsgruppe (den Rang)

Urkundsbeamter bezeichnet die Funktion.

z.B.: "Müller, Justizinspektor, als Urkundsbeamter der Geschäftsstelle"