Gerd Hankel

Gerd Hankel (* 1957 in Büderich near Wesel ) is a lawyer , international lawyer , translator and linguist .

Life

Hankel has been a research assistant at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture since 1998 . Between December 1999 and December 2001 he was a research assistant in the team of the Wehrmacht exhibition on the crimes of the Wehrmacht , entitled Dimensions of the War of Extermination 1941–1944 .

Since 2002, he examines the genocide in Rwanda , where he in particular the work of the so-called Gacaca watched -dishes and evaluated.

His book on the Leipzig Trials , i.e. the criminal prosecution of German war crimes in World War I , is the standard work on these events. In 2020 the book Das Dilemma, "Development Aid" in Africa, was published, a field report in which international law expert Gerd Hankel questions development aid in Africa and provides food for thought on how cooperation between North and South could work better. According to his inventory, corruption , clientelism and incompetence are widespread in society in the countries south of the Sahara . It is important to him that the donor countries make observance of human rights a decision criterion for development aid.

Projects and scientific conferences

• Conference: Reconnaître les Justes et leurs actes dans le génocide des Tutsi afin de bâtir un avenir meilleur , Conference, December 13, 2007 in Kigali (Rwanda)
• Conference: Comparability of Genocides , December 16, 2004
• Deadly Neighbors , international conference in Haifa , from 2-3. November 2003
• Investigation of the legal processing of the genocide in Rwanda on an international, national and local level

Publications (selection)

• with Gerhard Stuby (Ed.): Criminal courts against crimes against humanity. International criminal law 50 years after the Nuremberg trials. Hamburger Edition , Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930908-10-7 .
• The Leipzig Trials. German war crimes and their prosecution after the First World War. Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930908-85-9 .
• The UN. Idea and reality. Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-936096-64-3 .
• (Ed.): The power and the right. Contributions to international law and international criminal law at the beginning of the 21st century. Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-936096-83-5 .
• The prohibition of killing in war. An attempted intervention. Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86854-224-0 .
• Rwanda . Living and Rebuilding After Genocide. How history is made and how it becomes official truth . To Klampen, Springe 2016, ISBN 978-3-86674-539-1 .
• Rwanda 1994 to date. How to deal with genocide . To Klampen, Springe 2019, ISBN 978-3-86674-590-2 .
• The dilemma, "development aid" in Africa, a field report . To Klampen, Springe 2020, ISBN 978-3866746077 .

Magazines

• “We want you to forgive us.” - The beginnings of the Gacaca judiciary in Rwanda. Article by Gerd Hankel in: Ruanda Revue 2/2002, pp. 16–21.
• The gacaca justice . Article by Gerd Hankel from April 2, 2004.
• Nobody saw anything . Article by Gerd Hankel about the Gacaca tribunals in Rwanda from April 7, 2004.
• Past reality. Rwanda thirteen years after the genocide , in: the overview. 1 + 2/2007, pp. 78-87.

Interviews

• Rwanda: “A complete coming to terms with the genocide is impossible” Interview with Gerd Hankel about the Gacaca tribunals in: Journal for Development and Cooperation 04/2004.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Hankel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ronen Steinke : "Lubanga is just a very small fish". Verdict against Congolese war criminals. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 14, 2012, accessed March 14, 2012 (Interview with Hankel on the conviction of Thomas Lubanga by the International Criminal Court ). 

Individual proof

1. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Take a closer look. Accessed March 31, 2020 .