Details

The focus of the one-week study and information tour will be on how Germany, after reunification in 1989, dealt with the communist regime in former Eastern Germany (GDR), and crimes committed during this regime. Issues to be discussed are the Law which established the Office of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR, as well as the work of the Federal Commissioner (with whom a meeting will take place); the current debate on the modification of this law; and the limitations which fundamental rule of law principles impose on legal dealings with the past (such as fundamental human rights, the prohibition of retroactive application of a law, the principle of proportionality etc.). The members of the delegation will meet, inter alia, with high-ranking Germans who are working in the Office of the Federal Commissioner, Members of Parliament who had been working on the drafting of the German „lustration law“ (Stasi-Unterlagengesetz), representatives of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin, and representatives of German institutions which are dealing with the topic of reappraisal of totalitarian/authoritarian systems.

The language of the study and information program will be German and English.

Contact infos:

Dr. iur. Stefanie Ricarda Roos

Director, Rule of Law Program South East Europe – Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Strada Plantelor 50, RO-023971 Bucharest

E-Mail: stefanie.roos@kas.de

• Program as pdf.file >>
• Status quo of Lustration as pdf.file >>