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The Austrian Family and Labor Minister Christine Aschbacher (ÖVP) has announced her resignation due to allegations of plagiarism.
She justified her move on Saturday with a prejudice by "the media and political comrades".
Previously, there had been sharp criticism of the quality of her scientific work, including allegations that Aschbacher had copied parts without properly identifying the sources.
The 37-year-old strictly rejected the allegations of the expert Stefan Weber, known as the “plagiarism hunter”.
According to Aschbacher, she always wrote her work - it was about a diploma thesis and a dissertation - to the best of her knowledge and belief and trusted the assessment by recognized professors.
She is resigning to protect her family from hostility and abuse.
The politician submitted her dissertation on the subject of “Designing a management style for innovative companies” to the Technical University of Bratislava in Slovakia last May - parallel to her work as a minister in the middle of the Corona crisis.
She wrote her diploma thesis in 2006 at a university of applied sciences in Vienna.
Weber judged the minister's work on his blog as “never read abysses of gibberish, nonsense and plagiarism”.
"Apparently no one has even read across the board"
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Several sections of Aschbacher's work read as if she had chased long English texts 1: 1 through “Google Translate” and adopted translations unchanged, as the Austrian journalist Corinna Milborn vividly describes in a Facebook post.
"There are dozens of passages and Google Translate accidents in the dissertation that apparently no one has even read across the board."
Aschbacher, for example, quotes Apple founder Steve Jobs literally as follows: “Every manager must be who thinks positively.
Take smart risks, rapid failure and don't give up - stick with it ”.
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Plagiarism hunter Weber took “Google Translate” under protection: The errors “should not have come about with a translation program, because they weren't so bad in the past few years”.
Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, meanwhile, respected the decision of his party colleague, as he explained in an initial reaction.
He thanked Aschbacher for his commitment "in the last, very challenging year".