Kristina Hänel

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Kristina Hänel at the Anne Klein Women's Award ceremony (2019)

Kristina Gisela Hänel (born August 5, 1956 ) is a German specialist in general medicine and emergency medicine . The doctor, who practiced in Giessen , gained national notoriety because she was charged with advertising for the termination of pregnancy ( Section 219a of the Criminal Code ) and sentenced to a fine. In an appeal filed by Hänel, the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court (Az .: 1 Ss 15/19) overturned the conviction in July 2019 and referred the matter back to the Giessen Regional Court , which opened the case in view of the amendment to § 219a of the Criminal Code had to negotiate again. The Giessen Regional Court thereupon sentenced Hänel again in December 2019 to a fine of 25 daily rates. Hänel announced an appeal against the judgment.

Live and act

Hänel comes from a family of doctors. After graduating from high school at the age of 18, she began studying medicine. Hänel has been working as a licensed doctor and emergency doctor in the rescue service since 1981, and has completed further training in emergency medicine, anesthesia and sex therapy . Her first employment after graduation was at Pro Familia centers and in Stimezo clinics in the Netherlands. She has had her own practice in Giessen since 2001. Her main areas of expertise, in which she works and advises medically, include topics such as women's health, sexuality, family planning , pregnancy , childbirth and abortion .

Hänel was a founding member of Wildwasser Gießen, an association against the sexual abuse of girls and women. At the Justus Liebig University in Giessen she had a teaching position on sexual trauma in childhood. She volunteers in the working group Women's Health in Medicine, Psychotherapy and Society eV, at Pro Familia eV, in the German Society for Sexual Research . She also offers therapeutic riding for traumatized children and adolescents in integrative groups.

Hänel was married and gave birth to their now grown-up children while studying. She is a marathon runner and competes internationally for the age group national team of the German Triathlon Union .

Legal disputes

Criminal proceedings

Since 2009, three preliminary investigations have been pending against Hänel on suspicion of advertising for the termination of the pregnancy . As a result of the third preliminary investigation, Hänel was sentenced to a fine of 40 daily rates by the Giessen District Court on November 24, 2017 , because she had declared on the website of her practice that she would perform abortions. In October 2018, the district court of Giessen rejected Hänel's appeal against this conviction . Hänel appealed against revision one. The reports that led to the preliminary investigation were submitted by Yannic Hendricks , among others .

The judgment of the regional court of Giessen against Hänel for "advertising abortions" was overturned, announced the higher regional court in Frankfurt am Main on July 3, 2019. Section 219a, which has been amended since March 2019, is to be applied in their favor. The Giessen Regional Court thereupon sentenced Hänel again in December 2019 to a fine of 25 daily rates. The judge combined her verdict with criticism of the legislature: "It makes no sense to criminally prohibit factual information about a medical intervention" and "It is difficult to find arguments that the 219a has come into law in this way." Hänel resigned Appeal against the judgment.

The legal dispute sparked public criticism and a debate about the abolition or reform of Section 219a of the Criminal Code. Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , Die Linke and the FDP campaigned for the abolition or restriction of the criminal offense. After a 45-minute reading and debate in February 2018, the topic was handed over to the responsible committee for legal and consumer protection for further processing. In June 2018, a hearing took place in front of the committee with strong public and media sympathy, in which nine experts presented their position and the three existing bills of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Die Linke and FDP were discussed. In December 2018, the Ministries of Justice, Women and Health agreed on a legal compromise for Section 219a of the Criminal Code, which was passed by the Bundestag on February 21, 2019 in a roll-call vote with a majority of the CDU, CSU and SPD and on March 29 came into force. Hänel criticized this reform as tightening the penal code. It blocks the way for a liberal interpretation of the norm, as it was previously possible.

Civil proceedings

In taz , Junge Welt , Neues Deutschland and on Deutschlandfunk , Hänel commented on the legal and political issues surrounding the conflict. After the anti-abortion opponent Klaus Günter Annen had compared her with perpetrators of the Holocaust and described her as “degenerate”, she successfully defended herself against it in August 2020 with an injunction before the court. Annen also had to pay her compensation of 6,000 euros.

Awards

Award ceremony of the Anne Klein Women's Prize (2019)

Books

  • Andrea Vogelsang (pseudonym): The lioness' den. Stories from a doctor about abortion. Anthology, Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Sulzbach / Taunus 2018, new edition of the first edition expanded by an afterword, ISBN 978-3-89741-417-4 .
  • Kristina Hänel: Politics is personal. Diary of an "abortion doctor". Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86754-513-6 .

Web links

Commons : Kristina Hänel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judgment of the District Court of Giessen dated November 24, 2017. Accessed April 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ Information on abortions: Court upholds judgment against doctor Hänel. In: Spiegel Online . October 12, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Frankfurt: Dispute over abortion paragraphs - judgment against Kristina Hänel overturned - SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ FAZ.net: Why the judgment against doctor Kristina Hänel was overturned
  5. ↑ Kristina Hänel - specialist in general medicine. Accessed January 31, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Kristina Hänel. Heinrich Böll Foundation, November 26, 2018, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ AG Gießen , judgment of November 24, 2017, Az. 507 Ds 501 Js 15031/15 .
  8. ^ LG Giessen , judgment of October 12, 2018, Az. 3 Ns 406 Js 15031/15 .
  9. ↑ Kristina Hänel is going through an overhaul . In: Legal Tribune Online . November 20, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Daniel Herder: This is the anti-abortion opponent who likes to report doctors. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 11, 2019, accessed on March 11, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ dejure.org
  12. ^ Judgment against doctor Kristina Hänel overturned . In: FAZ . 3rd July 2019.
  13. ↑ Wiebke Ramm : "It makes no sense" . In: Spiegel Online . December 12, 2019.
  14. ↑ Sandra Schmid: German Bundestag - Controversy over advertising ban for abortion. In: German Bundestag . Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  15. ^ German Bundestag - opinions of the experts. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Controversial decision: Bundestag passes reform of Paragraph 219a with a clear majority. In: Spiegel Online . February 21, 2019, accessed February 28, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Karlen Vesper: "I would have loved to have been declared outlawed." In: New Germany . April 6, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  18. ↑ There is a headwind. In: young world. 17th January 2020.
  19. ↑ Terrible and hurtful. The doctor Kristina Hänel complains against the comparison of abortions with the Holocaust. In: the week of 15./16. August 2020, p. 3
  20. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Doctor Kristina Hänel prevails against radical opponents of abortion - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .
  21. ^ Clara-Zetkin-Frauenpreis 2018. Die Linke , accessed on February 5, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Anne Klein Women's Prize 2019 to Kristina Hänel, Natascha Nicklaus and Nora Szász. Heinrich Böll Foundation , accessed on February 5, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Dr. Kristina Hänel is supported by the Deutsches Frauenring e. V. honored as Women's Wrestler of the Year 2019. Paragraph 219a should be abolished. Deutscher Frauenring , accessed on March 4, 2019 .
  24. ↑ https://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/marburger-leuchtfeuer-preis-fuer-engagement- geht-an-zwei-aerztinnen,marburger-leuchtfeuer- 100.html
personal data
SURNAME Hänel, Kristina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hänel, Kristina Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in general medicine, psychotherapist and emergency physician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1956