2025 Bundestag election: Habeck rejects accusations of plagiarism

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A plagiarism hunter has searched through Robert Habeck's doctoral thesis. Shortly before the Bundestag election, he apparently wanted to make public accusations of inaccuracies in the footnotes. Instead, the Green Chancellor candidate precedes him. Weber does not want the objections to apply.

zdf.de

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Two weeks before the Bundestag election, Green Chancellor candidate Habeck rejected plagiarism accusations. He had his doctoral thesis examined. All news here in the campaign ticker.

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It's not two weeks until the Bundestag election. For Green Chancellor candidate Habeck, it's going well compared to the previous traffic lights partners. But it's now that plagiarism submissions to his doctoral thesis are loud. The topic overshadows a big appearance at ZDF.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

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A plagiarism hunter accuses the candidate of the Greens of breaking scientific standards in his doctoral thesis – that makes Habeck himself public. An examination of his university relieves him.

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German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, the Greens' candidate for chancellor, is accused of plagiarism. An Austrian specialist is examining the politician's 2001 doctoral dissertation, suspecting that Habeck copied parts of other people's works without permission.

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On Monday noon, February 10, shortly before the recording of his 45-minute interview with ARD and ZDF, the "green" chancellor candidate Robert Habeck went to the public. On X, he explained that he expected plagiarism to become known against him soon. These concerned his dissertation, with which he received his doctorate in 2000. Habeck, who was then 31 years old, denied the allegations and referred to investigations by the ombudsperson of the Un…