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Gerhard Schröder in a lecture hall at the University of Göttingen (September 2012)
Photo: Emily Wabitsch/dpa
Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) visited the University of Göttingen on Monday evening.
He is said to have met university president Metin Tolan.
The university did not want to reveal what the meeting was about.
The Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine and other regional newspapers assume that it was about the honorary doctorate that Schröder was awarded in 2005.
In his speech, which can still be read on the university's website, he promised to work for "a culture of science in the sense of understanding and understanding".
Schröder studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1966 to 1971.
Because of Schröder's proximity to Russia's ruler Vladimir Putin and Schröder's behavior in the Ukraine war, the Göttingen AstA had already demanded in March that the former chancellor's honorary doctorate be revoked.
Schröder also holds honorary doctorates from Tongji University in Shanghai, the University of St. Petersburg, Marmara University in Istanbul, Damascus University in Syria and Italy's Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo.
In recent weeks, a number of institutions have already withdrawn honorary titles from Schröder, including the German Football Association (DFB) and Borussia Dortmund.
Schröder himself renounced the honorary citizenship of the city of Hanover in March.
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