Constitutional judge election
University of Hamburg checks information about Brosius-Gersdorf’s doctoral thesis
At first, the University of Hamburg had no sufficient evidence of possible scientific mistakes by the judge candidate Brosius-Gersdorf. Now that has changed.
The University of Hamburg is investigating evidence of a possible scientific misconduct by the constitutional judge Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf. This is nominated for the election by the SPD, but is rejected by parts of the Union. After the first media reports of alleged parallels between their doctoral thesis and the habilitation thesis of her husband about two weeks ago, the university had not seen any reason for a review because no sufficient information had been brought to her.
Now a spokesman for the dpa news agency said that in the course of the media reporting, the ombuds’ position received justified information. According to the statutes, this is obliged to pursue this. This also affects the husband of the lawyer, now working at the University of Potsdam, Hubertus Gersdorf. There were also information against the professor at the University of Leipzig. Previously the Berliner had “Daily mirror” reported.
Basic idea of the presumption of innocence
The investigation is expressly taken into account the basic idea of the presumption of innocence, said the spokesman. The allegations would now be checked for concreteity and importance from a plausibility point of view. “If the notes meet these principles mentioned in the statutes, a formal ombuds’ process for the preliminary examination of the clues will be started.”
An external scientific specialist expertise to assess the information could also be consulted. On the basis of this report and all other information and documents available, the ombudal college then evaluated the overall observation.
Brosius-Gersdorf himself had commissioned an expert opinion
Brosius-Gersdorf and her husband had previously commissioned a short report from a Stuttgart law firm. This came to the preliminary result that the allegation of scientific misconduct against them is unfounded, as the lawyers explained in an accompanying letter.
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The allegations had become loud before the judge’s election, which had burst at the end. The Austrian plagiarism searcher Stefan Weber published the parallels between their doctoral thesis and the habilitation thesis of her husband. Brosius-Gersdorf’s dissertation was submitted in 1997 at the University of Hamburg, the habilitation thesis of her husband Hubertus at the same university in the summer semester of 1998.
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Source: Stern
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