Abstract
The present article closely examines the significant support of the German government for the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the 1990s. Based on newly released contemporaneous documents from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice, the article demonstrates the important role of the German delegation, led by Hans-Peter Kaul, who would later become an ICC judge, and supported by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs Klaus Kinkel, in the negiotating process as a whole. The article argues that reunified Germany resorted to the politics relating to international criminal justice as one important means of addressing its new role in international relations. In the same vein, Germany also actively encouraged progress in other domains of public international law at the time, such as climate change and the ban on anti-personnel landmines.
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