New suspicion against Berlin CDU politician Manja Schreiner: Doctor title in danger

New suspicion against Berlin CDU politician Manja Schreiner: Doctor title in danger

New suspicion against CDU politician Manja Schreiner

The CDU politician Manja Schreiner (45) is faced with severe allegations. As a senator for mobility, traffic, climate protection and the environment in the Berlin Senate of the Governing Mayor Kai Wegner, she is said to have written off during her doctoral thesis without correctly specifying the sources. Schreiner had already received his doctorate in 2007 at the University of Rostock on the subject of "employee consideration in takeover law".

The allegations against carpenters are based on research by the plagiarism tester of "Vroniplag Wiki". The allegations were triggered by a guest contribution by the Frankfurt professor Roland Schimmel in the "new legal weekly" (NJW). Schimmel reported on the well -founded investigations of the plagiarism examiners and referred to the corresponding text parallels in Schreiner's dissertation.

Professor Schimmel explains that the text parallels documented in the Vroniplagwiki are mostly so -called “peasant victims”. In a scientific work, either text is written down literally without setting quotation marks, or the section taken over appears shorter because the footnote is not at the end, but in the middle of the copied text. In addition, the text is often changed slightly to give the impression of your own thought.

A spokeswoman for Senator Schreiner commented on the allegations. She explained that Schreiner did her doctorate in 2007 and was ready to have the work checked if there were sufficient doubts.

Martin Heidingsfelder, founder of the Vroniplag Wiki Plagiats platform, has already looked at the documented pages of the dissertation. His conclusion is sobering: Schreiner makes serious mistakes in their plagiarism by calling the sources, but literally takes over the passages without setting quotation marks. Heidingsfelder believes that with over 100 clear plagiarism there is an urgent need for action for the University of Rostock and the doctoral degree of Schreiners is most likely withdrawn.

It is not the first plagiarism case of a politician in Berlin. As early as 2021, the then ruling mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) was revoked by the doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. Giffey was accused of the independence of her scientific achievement, since she had taken over texts and proofs of literature from authors without adequately marking this.