Brosius-Gersdorf: University of Hamburg checks info in your doctoral thesis | EUROtoday

The University of Hamburg is investigating proof of a doable scientific misconduct by the constitutional decide Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf. This is nominated for the election by the SPD, however is rejected by elements of the Union. After the primary media experiences of alleged parallels between their doctoral thesis and the habilitation thesis of her husband about two weeks in the past, the college had not seen any cause for a overview as a result of no ample info had been dropped at her.

Now a spokesman for the dpa information company stated that in the middle of the media reporting, the ombuds’ place obtained justified info. According to the statutes, that is obliged to pursue this. This additionally impacts the husband of the lawyer, now working on the University of Potsdam, Hubertus Gersdorf. There had been additionally info towards the professor on the University of Leipzig. The Berlin “Tagesspiegel” had beforehand reported.

The investigation is expressly taken into consideration the fundamental thought of the presumption of innocence, stated the spokesman. The allegations would now be checked for concreteity and significance from a plausibility standpoint. “Fulfilling the information mentioned in the statutes, a formal ombuds’ process for the preliminary examination of the information is started.”

An exterior scientific specialist experience to evaluate the data may be consulted. On the idea of this report and all different info and paperwork obtainable, the ombudal faculty then evaluated the general remark.

Brosius-Gersdorf and her husband had beforehand commissioned a brief report from a Stuttgart regulation agency. This got here to the preliminary end result that the allegation of scientific misconduct towards them is unfounded, because the attorneys defined in an accompanying letter.

The allegations had change into loud earlier than the decide’s election, which had burst on the finish. The Austrian plagiarism searcher Stefan Weber printed the parallels between their doctoral thesis and the habilitation thesis of her husband. Brosius-Gersdorf’s dissertation was submitted in 1997 on the University of Hamburg, the habilitation thesis of her husband Hubertus on the identical college in the summertime semester of 1998.