The University of Hamburg is investigating indications of possible scientific misconduct on the part of constitutional judge candidate Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf. After initial media reports about alleged parallels between her doctoral thesis and her husband's habilitation thesis around two weeks ago, the university had not yet seen any reason for a review because no sufficiently substantiated evidence had been brought to its attention.

Now a spokesperson told the German Press Agency that the ombudsman's office had received well-founded reports in the wake of the media coverage. According to its statutes, it is obliged to investigate this. Brosius-Gersdorf and her husband had previously commissioned a brief expert opinion from a law firm in Stuttgart. This came to the preliminary conclusion that the accusation of scientific misconduct against her is unfounded, as the lawyers explained in an accompanying letter.

Source https://www.diesachsen.de/en/politics/university-of-hamburg-examines-references-to-brosius-gersdorfs-doctoral-thesis-3039113

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