Allegations of plagiarism against her continue: Franziska Giffey
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She lost her doctorate, but her master’s degree is still free. After filing charges against Franziska Giffey’s new plagiarism allegations, her previous university announced that it would not investigate the politician’s master’s thesis.
DUniversity of the top candidate of the Berlin Social Democratic Party Franziska Giffy She has completed her master’s degree and has not reviewed the new allegations of plagiarism against the politician. A spokeswoman for the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR) said on request on Friday that, as far as the master’s thesis is concerned, the validity period is 5 years and has now expired. Giffey received his master’s degree from Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice (FHVR) (predecessor of HWR Berlin) in 2005.
For newcomers to the former Federal Minister of Family Affairs Allegations of plagiarism A known. Anatol Stefanowitsch, professor of linguistics at the Free University of Berlin (FU), has been studying this for some time. Giffy did not correctly quote 62 times on page 26 and therefore violated scientific standards, which he criticized in an interim report to the German News Agency on Friday. The online portal t-online first reported the incident.
Liberty University withdrew Giffy after reviewing her doctoral thesis in June. The university announced at the time that the doctorate was obtained by “defrauding the independence of its academic performance.”
