Last modified on Sat 22 May 2021 15.25 EDT
When a political career ends in disgrace, it is usually over a dodgy backroom deal, an extramarital affair or rumours of a sordid sexual fetish. Not in Germany, where the darkest possible stain on a politician’s honour is a slapdash footnote in their doctoral thesis.
Or so it seems, after family minister Franziska Giffey last week became the third minister of a Merkel government to leave office over PhD plagiarism accusations, while the Green party’s candidate for the chancellery was forced to release her LSE degree certificate to fend off accusations she had inflated her intellectual credentials.
Seelenstress von Kindern löst Reaktion der Politik aus
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Beeinflusst der Lebenslauf die Persönlichkeit? Das zeigt psychologische Studie
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