Education Minister of Germany Annette Schavan Stripped of Doctorate for plagarism

Annette Schavan the Education Minister of Germany on 6 February 2013 was stripped of her doctorate degree by the committee of academics at Duesseldorf’s Heinrich Heine University. The University took the action after the committee considered the allegations of plagiarism done by Schavan in different parts of the thesis submitted to the University.

The allegations were made against the Education Minister by an anonymous blogger in 2012 claiming the Annette Schavan failed to cite the passages properly of the thesis in philosophy submitted to the University in 1980.   

Before this, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the former Defence Minister of Germany resigned from his office in 2011 after it was confirmed that a major portion of doctoral thesis submitted by him to avail the doctorate was copied.