A university spokesman confirmed reports from the news magazine “Der Spiegel” and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) to the APA on Thursday. In the dissertation, the politician took over his master’s thesis, which he submitted in Hamburg in 2007, “without any reference.”
The external experts commissioned by the university determined this. The decision was initially not legally binding. Carstens, who has been State Secretary in Kiel since 2022, is free to go to administrative court, the university said. As a result of the current politician’s apparent approach to the dissertation at the time, the academic achievements that were completed at the university in Innsbruck were “so extensively reduced” that “the decision in the proceedings had to be made in this form,” according to the university Invoking the University Act. Carstens was informed of the decision, which dates back to mid-September.
Politician wants to file a complaint
The CDU politician told “Spiegel” that he considered the university’s decision to be unlawful and would lodge a complaint. The university senate will have to decide on this. He will not “actively use his doctorate” until a final decision is made. According to the reports, the Ministry of Justice has since removed Carstens’ doctorate from the homepage.
The case was initiated by the Luxembourg journalist Jochen Zenthöfer. Last year he made, among other things, the accusation that Carstens had copied elsewhere without marking the passages. However, the University of Innsbruck stated that the “allegations of inadequacies in the citation of individual text passages” were not decisive for the withdrawal of the title awarded in 2010.
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