German Defense Minister, Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg, has decided to resign from all public office because of accusations of plagiarism in his doctoral thesis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel regretted "profoundly" irrevocable resignation by the minister, who enjoyed the greatest popularity rates in Germany and was a key figure in the regional election year course.
The thesis adopted cum laude in 2007 from the University of Bayreuth, was written by Guttenberg as a deputy. The allegations first arose on various blogs for a couple of weeks, and the newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" published allegations of law professor, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, for whom several parts of the thesis are "blatant plagiarism" and a "hoax "because they were virtually identical to those published previously by other authors but these were mentioned.
The text was digitized by the Internet platform Interaktive Guttenberg Report, in which Internet users worldwide compared with the biography text about it and were marked in red the pages on which appeared a phrase attributed to another author who was not cited . 20% of the text of the thesis went beyond the red line and the progressive media has launched a tough campaign criticism that nicknamed the Minister and German aristocrat "Baron Cut-and-Paste" and toyed with coining the nickname her last name of "zu Googleberg." Zu Guttenberg, while still maintaining his thesis that in essence, has submitted his irrevocable resignation even against the criterion of Merkel, who was willing to continue supporting him.
"I agree with my enemies that I was appointed minister of defense", said upon leaving office. "Not only am resigning from my PhD full of mistakes, but I can understand that this is reason enough for many in the academic community. The reason is because the question of whether I can still keep up the high expectations I set "zu Guttenberg said in a brief statement in which he acknowledged he was giving" the single most painful of my life.
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The thesis adopted cum laude in 2007 from the University of Bayreuth, was written by Guttenberg as a deputy. The allegations first arose on various blogs for a couple of weeks, and the newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" published allegations of law professor, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, for whom several parts of the thesis are "blatant plagiarism" and a "hoax "because they were virtually identical to those published previously by other authors but these were mentioned.
The text was digitized by the Internet platform Interaktive Guttenberg Report, in which Internet users worldwide compared with the biography text about it and were marked in red the pages on which appeared a phrase attributed to another author who was not cited . 20% of the text of the thesis went beyond the red line and the progressive media has launched a tough campaign criticism that nicknamed the Minister and German aristocrat "Baron Cut-and-Paste" and toyed with coining the nickname her last name of "zu Googleberg." Zu Guttenberg, while still maintaining his thesis that in essence, has submitted his irrevocable resignation even against the criterion of Merkel, who was willing to continue supporting him.
"I agree with my enemies that I was appointed minister of defense", said upon leaving office. "Not only am resigning from my PhD full of mistakes, but I can understand that this is reason enough for many in the academic community. The reason is because the question of whether I can still keep up the high expectations I set "zu Guttenberg said in a brief statement in which he acknowledged he was giving" the single most painful of my life.
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