In Germany, it’s raining plagiarists.
Veronica Sass, daughter of a former premier of Bavaria, has just had her University of Konstanz doctorate taken away.
Karl-Theodor Guttenberg – now he’s blaming his family, and his dissertation chair – Veronica Sass, and pretty soon Silvana Koch-Mehrin.
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Keeping in mind that Guttenberg was Defense Minister, consider his explanation:
Another problem [he said] was with the expectations of his family to master his existing commitments successfully. It had been made clear to him that it would not have been acceptable if the quality of any of his various commitments suffered and that a work once started had to be completed. Furthermore, Guttenberg wrote that he did not want to disappoint his advisor Peter Häberle.
Big strong head of German military! Capitulates to family, dissertation advisor…
He’s now known in the German press as the Self-Defense Minister.
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UD thanks Chris.
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UPDATE: Koch-Mehrin folds ’em.
May 11th, 2011 at 4:01PM
Shhhh…don’t tell the German politicians about Breyer State, Almeda, et al. No need to go to the trouble to find a text to plagiarize!