A Berlin university on Thursday stripped a prominent former German minister of her doctorate following a long-running saga over plagiarism allegations that led to her resignation last month.
BERLIN (AP) A Berlin university on Thursday stripped a prominent former German minister of her doctorate following a long-running saga over plagiarism allegations that led to her resignation last month.
A Berlin university has stripped a prominent former German minister of her doctorate following a long-running saga over plagiarism allegations that led to her resignation last month
German politician Franziska Giffey stripped of doctorate
Social Democrat Franziska Giffey has become the the latest German politician to fall from grace over alleged academic plagiarism. However, she still plans to run for Berlin mayor in September.
Giffey stepped down from her cabinet post in May
Berlin s Free University (FU) said its presidium voted unanimously Thursday to strip prominent German politician Franziska Giffey of her title after a probe into her 2010 doctoral thesis on European politics found evidence of plagiarism.
The FU said Giffey s qualification had been acquired by deception over the independence of her scientific achievement. Texts and literature had been inserted without sufficiently crediting those authors, it found.