Annette Schavan, Germany’s education minister, has been stripped of her doctorate following an investigation of claims that she plagiarized parts of her thesis. A committee of academics at Heinrich Heine University, in Düsseldorf, made the decision late Tuesday after considering the case. The country’s former defense minister quit two years ago in the wake of a similar controversy.
Annette Schavan, Germany’s education minister, has been stripped of her doctorate following an investigation of claims that she plagiarized parts of her thesis. A committee of academics at Heinrich Heine University, in Düsseldorf, made the decision late Tuesday after considering the case. The country’s former defense minister quit two years ago in the wake of a similar controversy.