A liberal Jewish religious community has filed a constitutional complaint in order to obtain its own state treaty and appropriate financial support. To date, the religious community has received financial support via the Central Council of Jews in Germany, which entered into a state treaty with the federal government in 2003. However, the support passed on by the Central Council amounts to less than one per cent of the support, although the number of believers and congregations would correspond to four to fifteen per cent.

Prof Dr Christofer Lenz and Dr Maximilian Stützel are representing the religious community and are basing their constitutional complaint on an earlier decision by the Federal Constitutional Court, among other things. At that time, the Federal Constitutional Court stated that the state may not place a religious community in a “relationship of dependence” on another religious community.