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University relieved Habeck again in plagiarism allegations
An investigation by the University of Hamburg has shown that Greens Chancellor candidate Habeck did not violate any standards during his doctoral thesis. A second exam now comes to the same result.
The University of Hamburg has also invalidated the allegations of plagiarism against the Greens Chancellor candidate Robert Habeck in a second exam. The second exam confirmed the second exam, the university said. There is no scientific misconduct. “This result was communicated in writing to Robert Habeck, whereby the recommendations for revising certain quotes and footnotes of the dissertation were supplemented by individual places.”
It was about Habeck’s doctoral thesis published in 2001 “The Nature of Literature”. The background was accusations of the Austrian plagiarism searcher Stefan Weber. According to the university, Habeck had asked the university to check his work after a number of very specific allegations had been made in January.
University: No scientific misconduct
After an examination, the university had declared that according to its rules there was no scientific misconduct. It was “neither intentionally nor grossly negligent against the standards of good scientific practice”.
“After the shipping of this letter, the ombudsman came up with additional information from Dr. Robert Habeck,” said the university. These have now also been “carefully examined and professionally classified”. This examination did not lead to any assessment of the facts. “There is no scientific misconduct.”
Plagiats seeker: Habeck dizzy
Weber had accused Habeck on the X platform to dizzy. It is not about inaccuracies in the footnotes. “You have methodically simulated a source work that did not take place.” Habeck also plagued text fragments.
In his published investigation, Weber speaks of 128 “source, quotation and text plagiates”. We are talking about an “appearance of reading”: Habeck quoted the works of authors and primary sources, but obviously never consulted as original sources and obviously never read them – since the sources were demonstrably written off by other, unnamed works. Weber’s conclusion: “The source work by Robert Habeck is to be described as missed and unscientific.”
dpa
Source: Stern
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