Resignations Angela Merkel's partners, in trouble for another alleged case of plagiarism
The lies have very short legs and the former Austrian Minister of Labor,
Christine Aschbacher
now walks on crutches.
The legs with which it made a political career have been cut, metaphorically speaking, by Stefen Weber, a well-known plagiarism hunter.
The conclusion of the analysis made of Aschbacher's doctoral thesis has been so devastating that she has been forced to resign.
She is not the first political leader to fall into her own traps, but she is the last in penance for having committed some of the capital sins of the consolidated Central European democracies: deception, lack and integrity, ethical and moral fraud.
The doctorate in Austria or Germany is a sacred title
, an example of scientific work and rigor that confers credibility and prestige to its supporter.
Plagiarism in a thesis is equivalent to resignation, hence the proliferation of platforms that monitor the work signed by those who have to preach in the public function by example.
In Germany, accusations of plagiarism have splashed on what the Chancellor, Angela Merkel, leads three of her ministers to legislature.
Two of them, the holder of Defense Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, and that of Science and Research.
Annette Schavan, resigned.
Zu Guttenberg, the "white hope" of the Bavarian Social Christian Union (CSU) and star minister at the time, did so in 2011. Schavan, right-hand man, personal friend and confidante of Merkel two years later.
The third, the Social Democrat
Franziska Giffey
, decided to give up the doctorate degree even before the University of Berlin reviewed it.
Giffey, who left the Executive and is the only one of those mentioned who is still politically active, fled the burning to continue her career, although now at the regional level.
Giffey, however, will never be able to empty his backpack of plagiarism allegations.
Aschbacher, 37, a member of the ruling Austrian People's Party (OVP) and a close associate of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, has denied Weber's allegations.
He assures that he carried out his academic work "with his best loyalty and knowledge" and blamed his resignation on media and political pressure.
"The harassment, political turmoil and attacks fall, unfortunately, not only on me but also on my children, with an unbearable momentum," explained Aschbacher to later regret that he had not been given the opportunity for a "fair trial" of verification of his thesis by academic institutions, for which he blamed "the media and their political accomplices."
According to Weber, Aschbacher had little to scratch.
His
academic work is a "scientific catastrophe
,
" he
said.
Apparently, he entered false, copied or poorly translated citations and without mentioning the source.
Her thesis was, according to Weber, such a slob that she does not understand how it passed the filters of the University of Bratislava, where Aschbacher presented it, in May 2020 and already being a minister of the coalition government that forms the Popular Party and the Greens.
Among the fragments that Weber culled from a thesis entitled "Designing a management style for innovative companies" are phrases as incomprehensible as that "assumptions are like barnacles on the side of a ship, it slows us down" or "has been discussed with the board of directors management based on continuity, in which the affected party can clearly agree to 100%, especially in the application of the principle of flow, which is the most beautiful thing for managers when employees are in flow and this state derives in success ".
There are so many
pearls
that the thesis that social networks and columnists have launched into the document as much as enjoyment as pigs in search of truffles.
Weber has detected up to 21% plagiarism in the thesis.
Aschbacher, coming as Kurz from the Popular Youth, was a stranger when she was called to the Job portfolio in January last year.
He will be replaced by Martin Kocher, an independent economist
.
It will be up to him to take the measures that his predecessor did not take to counteract unemployment derived from the coronavirus pandemic or regulate teleworking.
The Kurz government, however, is splashed and that of the University of Bratislava also, although it has rained there in the wet.
The STU was attended by the Prime Minister, the Minister of Education and the Speaker of the Slovak Parliament.
They all cheated in their scientific work.
The STU will review Aschbacher's thesis and this time it may not be as generous as the fame of Eastern European universities is lavish in awarding degrees.
There are examples and among them, in addition to Aschbacher, is
Andreas Scheuer, German Transport Minister
.
Nicknamed by some German media the "little doctor" due to the simplicity of the thesis he presented at the University of Prague, the Bavarian politician, faced with what was coming to him, unilaterally detached himself from the title in 2014, before joining of the Merkel cabinet.
But that shadow will always haunt you.
And it's not the only one.
In Austria, for not leaving the German zone, the suspicion of plagiarism continues to be a stain on the resumes of several high-ranking officials, including
Johannes Hahn
, a party partner of Chancellor Kurz and a former Minister of Research and Science.
The University of Vienna revised her thesis, but sentenced the Austrian: "There is no plagiarism, but probably the work would no longer be accepted. Han saw no reason to resign. He is currently the European Commissioner for Budgets and Administration.
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