University of Bayreuth stops checking Alice Weidel's doctoral thesis for plagiarism. According to the university, only isolated errors occurred there - it does not see any culpable misconduct.
University announced in December 2023 that it was investigating “suspicion of plagiarism” Two plagiarism detectors accused Weidel of not or insufficiently identifying the sources of individual passages, coherent sentences or sentence fragments in their doctoral thesis from 2011. The thesis deals with the pension system of the People's Republic of China.