Her resignation is not only a "resounding slap in the face" for the future coalition partners SPD, Greens and Left in Berlin, as the CDU comments.

The surprising withdrawal of the President of the Humboldt University, Sabine Kunst, in protest against the new Berlin higher education law is also an indictment of the former governing mayor.

Because Michael Müller, as Senator for Science, bore the technical and political responsibility for the law. The former Brandenburg Science Minister Art, who, like him, belongs to the SPD, has a devastating judgment on the farewell work of Comrade Müller, who has moved to the Bundestag: "Well meant, but badly done."

Well-intentioned is the regulation, which was included in the law shortly before the election, that postdocs, who as scientists often work from temporary contract to temporary contract for years, should be hired for an unlimited period in the future.

But for a university of excellence like the HU, which recruits the best minds, this regulation is too hasty.

The number of permanent scientific staff, as Kunst rightly points out, will increase drastically as a result, without the personnel structures being geared towards this.

Not to mention the lack of financial resources for the many post-doc positions.

In the end, some areas could even be deleted.

Badly done.