German Vice Chancellor Habeck rejects plagiarism allegations

Two weeks before the Bundestag election in Deutschland Has Greens Chancellor candidate Robert Habeck on Monday Allegations of plagiarism rejected. It is about Habeck’s 2001 doctoral thesis “The Nature of Literature”.

The background is allegations of the Austrian media scientist and “Plagiatsjäger” Stefan Weber.

The allegations were invalidated

In a video published in social media, Habeck said that an exam of the ombudsman at the University of Hamburg showed that there was no scientific misconduct. The university confirmed this.

Habeck said that he would expect the allegations against his doctoral thesis to be published during the day. He knows this and had it checked in advance. It is about inaccuracies in footnotes. The allegations were invalidated.

University of Hamburg sees no scientific misconduct

The University of Hamburg said that the result was found that there was no scientific misconduct in accordance with the rules of the university, “since neither intentionally nor grossly negligent was violated against the standards of good scientific practice”. The independence of the research performance was confirmed by the test result.

Last August, Weber described Habeck’s dissertation as a “science simulation” in his blog and continued to write: “There will be uncomfortable things to report on the interior of the dissertation in the coming months.”

Habeck: allegations against my wife too

Habeck continued that Weber would also accuse his wife’s doctoral thesis. However, his wife runs for no political mandate. “She is not part of the election campaign. So I ask you to keep my family out.”

In the summer of 2021 and a few months before the Bundestag election in Germany, Weber levied allegations against the then Greens Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock. It was about Baerbock’s book “Now. How we renew our country”. In the summer of 2021, Weber also criticized that the then Union Chancellor Armin Laschet took over in his book “The Aufliger Republic. Immigration as an opportunity”.