Merkel’s Defense Minister Stripped of University Doctor Title
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German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the country’s most popular politician, was stripped of his doctorate in law after he admitted to making “grave” mistakes in his thesis.
The University of Bayreuth president, Ruediger Bormann, announcing the findings of an initial investigation of the 2006 work, said that Guttenberg had failed to mark parts of his doctoral thesis which had been taken from other sources. The university didn’t examine whether Guttenberg had resorted to “deception” in writing his paper, Bormann said.