Kaminski, Gerd, 1942-

Gerd Kaminski (14 December 1942 – 7 August 2022) was an Austrian legal scholar and an expert in Chinese affairs. He studied law and the Chinese language at the University of Vienna. He has been the head of the Austro-Chinese society since 1971. He has been head of the Boltzmann Institute for Chinese and Southeast Asian Research in Vienna since his habilitation in 1978. Additionally he held several guest professorships, amongst others at the State University of New York and at the Peking University. Furthermore, he was a Chinese affairs consultant to the Austrian Foreign Ministry. One of his main focuses in his studies was the conception of Chinese law. He has travelled to Asia more than 70 times und wrote more than 35 books. Kaminski died on 7 August 2022, at the age of 79.