Franziska Giffey
She loses her doctorate
Franziska Giffey resigned as Family Minister in May.
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Franziska Giffey is said to have plagiarized her doctoral thesis. Now the ex-family minister has lost her doctorate.
Franziska Giffeys (43) doctorate has been revoked for good! That gave the Free University of Berlin (FU) is now known on its website. In October 2019, the committee issued a reprimand against the SPD politician – this has now been lifted. After much criticism, it was decided to carry out another test procedure. Now a decision was made. The university said that Giffey obtained her doctorate by “deceiving the independence of her academic achievement”.
The 43-year-old had taken over text passages from other authors without adequate labeling. According to the experts, your work “Europe’s path to the citizen – the European Commission’s policy for the participation of civil society” does not meet the requirements of good scientific practice. In mid-May, Giffey had already resigned from her position as family minister due to the ongoing plagiarism allegations.