Söder's new CSU General Secretary: Expert accuses Hubert of plagiarism in his doctoral thesis
Created: 05/08/2022Updated: 05/08/2022 09:01
New stress for the CSU under boss Markus Söder (front)?
Bavaria's Prime Minister and the new General Secretary Martin Huber © Peter Kneffel/dpa
It's about 25 quotes in his dissertation: Shortly after the resignation of CSU General Secretary Stephan Mayer, allegations against his successor Martin Huber were made.
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The resignation of CSU General Secretary Stephan Mayer was only a few days ago.
Now there are allegations against his successor Martin Huber - he is said to have plagiarized.
According to a report by
Bild am Sonntag (Bams)
, the expert Jochen Zenthöfer came across numerous plagiarisms in Huber's dissertation.
In the first 26 alone, there were a total of 25 citations with no or incorrect reference to the source.
"Mr. Huber should not have received his doctorate with this work," said Zenthöfer of the
BamS
.
There are "blatant violations of good scientific practice".
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The head of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament, Martin Hagen, asked Franconian Huber not to use his doctorate for the time being.
Huber himself told the
BamS
that he had written his doctoral thesis "to the best of my knowledge and belief".
Nevertheless, "for reasons of transparency", he asked the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich to check the work again.
Huber succeeded Stephan Mayer as CSU General Secretary on May 6.
He had previously officially resigned after only a few weeks in office for "health reasons".
This was preceded by an apparently escalated dispute about Mayer's private life, in which he is said to have threatened a journalist.
In a comment, the Munich Merkur editor-in-chief raised
Georg Anastasiadis emphasized the importance of CSU personnel for the Bavarian state elections in 2022.
(AFP/frs)