Med school: tip apportion plagiarized her thesis

Von der Leyen had been held in a domestic assign over media reports that she plagiarized portions of her doctoral thesis, a assign that had previously brought down other high-level German politicians.

In a bid to transparent her name, she had asked a Hanover Medical School, where she performed her doctorate in a 1990s, to reevaluate a paper.

After months of examination, however, a medical school’s president Christopher Baum pronounced Wednesday: “The Senate decided… with a infancy of seven to one votes to not frame a (doctorate) title.”

Although von der Leyen was found to have plagiarized some portions, the committee found this to be an “error though not misconduct”.

“It’s an blunder in a form of piracy in that paragraphs of content were used but scold marker of a authors,” pronounced Baum, adding however that “the settlement of piracy does not indicate to counsel deception.”

The school’s boss also combined these errors did not concede the “scientific value” of a thesis.

Von der Leyen welcomed a outcome saying: “I am blissful that a university has resolved after a consummate hearing that my experiments for medical research were applicable and over a mandate of systematic work.”

However, she also concurred that “parts of my former work do not meet the standards we set for myself”.