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Erfurt (dpa / th) - The Ministry of Science has appealed against the verdict against a professor for a sex scandal.
The ministry is aiming for a final removal of the man from the university service, said a spokesman.
The ministry had already tried to dismiss the professor at the University of Erfurt from the civil service with a lawsuit.
The Meiningen Administrative Court found in its judgment at the beginning of November that the university lecturer had "seriously" violated his official duties.
Nevertheless, the initiation of sex in the university between teachers and students does not justify the removal from the civil service relationship.
This was justified with the fact that the adult students were no longer wards, but adults.
The administrative court finally imposed a pay cut on the professor.
The man was accused of forcing female students to have sex with the promise of good grades.
The Meiningen administrative court had found, among other things, that there had been two conversations with a student in the man's office.
He is said to have asked them to start a sexual relationship with him.
Once he linked this with a reference to his position as a professor.
In the disciplinary proceedings, however, he was not accused of having requested or obtained sexual services or acts in return for better grades.
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The science ministry said the man had been relieved of his duties until the allegations were finally resolved.
This means that he cannot lead any courses at the university.
The case had caused too much excitement.
The student council had also called for an appeal against the judgment of the administrative court.
According to the Ministry of Science, only one other similar case has so far become known in the Thuringian university landscape - at the University of Music in Weimar.
The ministry spokesman did not give any details.
Judgment of the Meiningen Administrative Court