Franziska Giffey

Franziska Giffey (2021)

Handover of the certificate of appointment on December 21, 2021

Franziska Giffey [ ˈɡɪfaɪ̯ ] (* May 3, 1978 in Frankfurt (Oder) as Franziska Süllke ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and since December 21, 2021 the Governing Mayor of Berlin .

Before that, she was District Mayor of Berlin - Neukölln from April 2015 to March 2018 and Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth from March 2018 to May 2021 . She resigned from the ministerial office as a result of the plagiarism affair surrounding her dissertation . Her doctorate was revoked in June 2021 . She has been chairwoman of the SPD Berlin since November 2020 .

Origin, profession and private life

Giffey with US Ambassador John B. Emerson and his wife (2016)

Franziska Giffey is the daughter of an accountant and a car -Meisters. She grew up with her brother in Briesen in the Fürstenwalde district in the GDR . From 1988 to 1990 she was a student of the polytechnic high school "Werner Seelenbinder" and then until 1997 of the high school of the same name in Fürstenwalde / Spree .

She started in the winter semester 1997/98 at the Humboldt University of Berlin , a teaching degree in the subjects of English and French . Because of a dysphonia (voice disorder caused by weakness of the larynx ), doctors urgently advised her against becoming a teacher, and she had to drop out of teaching after the second semester of 1998. Due to the voice problems, Giffey decided to study administrative law at the University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice (FHVR) in Berlin. In 2001 she obtained the academic degree of Diplom-Verwaltungswirtin (FH) .

During her studies, she was in 2000, three months intern in the office of Dave Sullivan ( Labor Party ), District Mayor of Lewisham , a district of London. After graduating, Giffey worked in Berlin in the office of the district mayor of Treptow-Köpenick , Klaus Ulbricht (SPD) , until 2002 . In addition to her subsequent professional activity in the Berlin municipal administration, she completed a degree in European administrative management at the FHVR Berlin from 2003 to 2005 . In 2005 she obtained a Master of Arts degree . During her studies, she worked in the Representation of the State of Berlin to the European Union in Brussels in 2003 and in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 2005 . Between 2004 and 2009 she also lectured at various academies and institutes, including the Administrative Academy Berlin , the European School of Governance Berlin and the dbb Academy .

Giffey was European Commissioner for the Berlin district of Neukölln from 2002 to 2010 . From 2005 to 2010 she completed a doctoral degree in political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin . She wrote her dissertation on the subject of Europe's path to the citizen - The European Commission's policy on the participation of civil society . In 2010 she was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD . Her doctorate was revoked in June 2021.

She has been married to the vet Karsten Giffey since 2008 and has a son with him who was born in 2009. Basketball player Niels Giffey is her nephew by marriage.

Political party

Giffey joined the SPD in 2007 . In the same year she was elected as a cashier to the board of the SPD Neukölln. On March 17, 2012, she was elected deputy district chairman and on May 9, 2014, she took over the district chairmanship from Fritz Felgentreu . At the district delegate meeting on April 14, 2018, she did not run again for the district chairmanship. Severin Fischer was elected her successor.

As Neukölln district chairwoman, she was a member of the board of the SPD Berlin from 2014 to 2018 . At the state party conference on November 28, 2020, she and Raed Saleh were elected as Berlin state chairmen. Giffey received 89.4 percent of the vote and Saleh received 68.7 percent of the vote. The previous incumbent Michael Müller did not run anymore.

From December 6, 2019 to December 11, 2021, she was a member of the SPD party executive committee .

Franziska Giffey and Raed Saleh on election evening (2021)

At the state party conference on April 24, 2021, Giffey was elected the top candidate of the SPD Berlin in the 2021 House of Representatives election with 85.7 percent of the votes . In the election, the SPD took first place with 21.4 percent of the second vote .

MPs

On September 15, 2020, Giffey was nominated as an SPD candidate in the Neukölln 6 constituency for the 2021 House of Representatives election. In the election she won the direct mandate with 40.8 percent of the first votes .

Public Offices

District councilor for education, school, culture and sport of Berlin-Neukölln

On September 1, 2010, Giffey became district councilor for education, school, culture and sport in the Berlin district of Neukölln and thus a member of the district office . Since then she has been on leave as a municipal civil servant for the State of Berlin. Her office as district councilor ended when she was elected district mayor.

District Mayor of Berlin-Neukölln

On April 15, 2015, the district assembly elected Giffey as district mayor of the Neukölln district after she had been considered a possible successor to the district mayor Heinz Buschkowsky (SPD) for a long time . She describes Buschkowsky as one of her political role models and her mentor. As district mayor, she was also the head of the finance and economics department of the district office. She resigned from office before being appointed Federal Minister.

Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth

Franziska Giffey in the Federal Council, 2019

On March 14, 2018, Giffey was appointed Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth in the Merkel IV cabinet. Martin Hikel was her successor as district mayor of Neukölln .

In April 2018, Giffey announced in a media interview that it would bring a “ good daycare law ” into departmental coordination, which should support the federal states in improving the quality of childcare . The draft provides, among other things, funds for a fee exemption (the use for this depends on the countries) as well as changes in the childcare key and in language support . Training, working conditions and pay for educators should also be improved. The shortage of skilled workers cannot simply be solved with immigration .

As Federal Minister for Seniors, Giffey helped bring about the “Concerted Care Action”. This includes the “nursing training offensive”, which is intended to ensure that ten percent more training positions for nursing professionals will be created by 2023. However, Giffey received strong criticism from the German Professional Association for Nursing Professions (DBfK) for a video series that was produced as part of the campaign “Make a career as a person!”, As it shows a depiction of the nursing professions that is unrealistic and offensive to the self-image and ethos.

On May 19, 2021, Giffey resigned from her ministerial office as a result of the plagiarism affair surrounding her dissertation . She was formally dismissed by the Federal President the following day . Federal Minister of Justice Christine Lambrecht also took over her department.

Political positions

Giffey is in favor of compulsory kindergarten for children from the age of three in order to guarantee early childhood support for every child and to be able to prepare them for school attendance.

She is a critic of the Berlin elementary school reforms passed between 2004 and 2008, with which, among other things, the abolition of pre- primary schools and the lowering of the school age were resolved. In the State of Berlin, children can currently go to school before their 6th birthday. Giffey advocated the abolition of so-called early schooling, which was gradually implemented with the decision of the senate meeting in January 2015. Giffey is also in favor of the reintroduction of pre- school classes or preschool at elementary schools in order to better support children who are not yet ready for school.

In addition, Giffey is in favor of better pay for teachers and the reintroduction of the civil service of teaching staff by the state of Berlin in order to counter a migration of well-trained teachers to other federal states. The civil service of teachers was abolished in 2004 in the state of Berlin.

As Neukölln school councilor, Giffey advocated and was responsible for the deployment of security guards at Neukölln schools. The Neukölln district introduced the nationwide unique security guard in front of schools in 2007 after several incidents of violence. With the help of the security guard, the intrusion of non-school people into the school complex is to be prevented.

Giffey has been drawing attention to the issue of immigration of people from Southeastern Europe to Germany, especially to Berlin-Neukölln, since 2011 , among other things in the annual Roma status reports of the Neukölln district office . She made several trips to Bulgaria and Romania to find out about the reasons for migration there. It works to ensure that municipalities and districts receive extensive support and financial resources for local integration projects from the federal and state governments and that integration policy is understood as a joint task of municipalities, federal and state governments. As Neukölln's school councilor, she advocated the establishment of welcome classes and summer schools in which new children receive German lessons and are prepared for regular school attendance.

2018 advocated Giffey the purchase of burkinis by a Herner promote high school, Muslim students to take part in swimming lessons. She also demanded fines for families who do not allow their children to take part in swimming lessons for cultural or religious reasons.

On July 4, 2021, Franziska Giffey's position regarding the deportation of criminals to war zones such as Afghanistan and Syria was discussed in many media. Likewise, that she has positioned herself against a party conference decision. On April 24, 2021, a state party convention issued a resolution calling on the social democratic members of the Berlin Senate to refrain from deportations to Afghanistan and Syria, even in individual cases, in accordance with the current coalition agreement.

Plagiarism affair about dissertation

First review of the doctoral thesis

In February 2019 it became known that the dissertation supervised by Tanja Börzel (second reviewer was Hartmut Häußermann ) was being checked by the Free University of Berlin due to a suspicion of plagiarism . Giffey had requested the review of her doctoral thesis himself after 73 text passages on 49 of the 205 pages of her doctoral thesis had been objected to on the VroniPlag Wiki . There, among other things, passages on the philosopher Jürgen Habermas were objected to, which contain formulations from the German-language Wikipedia . Giffey rejected a deliberate plagiarism, stating that she “wrote this work to the best of her knowledge and belief”. The investigation of the doctoral thesis was initiated by a wiki activist with the pseudonym Robert Schmidt, who works as an anonymous plagiarism checker on the VroniPlag Wiki. According to him, the high proportion of “arbitrary referencing” in Giffey's doctoral thesis, in which she deliberately cited incorrect sources, stands out.

In April 2019, the political scientist Peter Grottian described the allegations as not as serious as with Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , but more serious than with Annette Schavan . He suggested Giffey resign from her ministerial office and ask the Free University of Berlin to withdraw her doctorate. The real problem with the doctoral thesis for him, however, was that Giffey wrote it about her work as European Commissioner for the Neukölln district and did not keep any scientific distance.

On May 5, 2019, VroniPlag Wiki published the result of its review of Giffey's doctoral thesis. They rated 119 text passages on 76 of the 205 pages of Giffey's doctoral thesis as plagiarism. This corresponded to a share of 37.1 percent of all pages. Of these, 11 pages contained 50 to 75 percent plagiarism text and one page more than 75 percent. In 72 text passages, they accused Giffey of “arbitrary referencing”, in which she deliberately cited incorrect sources. For example, when she defined the term civil society, she cited three sources, but adopted the definition from a fourth, unnamed source.

Giffey switched on a lawyer who stated in an expert report at the end of June 2019 that Giffey had used an American citation style according to her doctor's mother's instructions. She only implemented what was required of her.

In August 2019, Giffey announced to the SPD party leadership that she wanted to forego her ministerial office if the Free University of Berlin should withdraw her doctorate. For the same reason, she is not running for party leadership .

On October 30, 2019, the Free University of Berlin announced that it would give Giffey a reprimand for her dissertation and not withdraw her doctorate. The university's presidium followed the recommendation of the test committee. The review committee checked the quantitative and qualitative relevance of the plagiarized text passages and came to the conclusion that the plagiarized text passages had not become overwhelming in terms of quantity and would not have a qualitative impact on the dissertation. You would be mainly in the theoretical part and the empirical main part would be an independent scientific achievement even without the theoretical part. The final report of the review panel was initially not published and it was not disclosed which passages in the text were assessed as plagiarism.

Criticism of the first review and complaint issued

Critics complained that this sanction was not provided for in the examination regulations, which is why the lawyer Volker Rieble spoke of a "given doctorate". The anonymous plagiarism checker with the pseudonym Robert Schmidt, who initiated the investigation of Giffey's doctoral thesis, criticized the fact that the 72 text passages suspected of being "arbitrarily referenced" had not been checked by the review panel.

In the press it was also criticized that the first reviewer of Giffey's work, the political scientist Tanja Börzel , as chairwoman of the doctoral committee, was involved in setting up the review panel . This allowed the doctor's mother to choose who would control her assessment. Criticism was also caused by the fact that only people with scientific connections to the doctor’s mother belonged to the review panel. The chairman Bernd Ladwig belonged to the institute council together with Börzel, she led a research project with Miriam Hartlapp, she worked with Barbara Pfetsch at the Jean Monnet Center, she published an article with Ingo Peters and the only external member Edgar Grande has together with Börzels Husband Thomas Risse published.

According to an opinion published on August 7, 2020 by the Scientific Parliamentary Service of the Berlin House of Representatives , the Free University of Berlin should not have issued a complaint because there was no legal basis for it. Only in the case of minor acts of deception could unintended sanctions be used. The report was drawn up on behalf of the Berlin AfD parliamentary group. Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller then rejected calls for the Senate Administration for Science to intervene and the proceedings to be rolled out in his role as Senator for Science.

On October 5, 2020, the AStA of the Free University of Berlin published the final report of the review committee that it had received on the Freedom of Information Act . In it Giffey was accused of "objective deception" in 27 text passages. In a statement, the AStA demanded that Giffey's doctoral degree should be withdrawn because it was a matter of misconduct worthy of sanction and a complaint was not provided for by law. In comparison, it was stated that students failed exams if they forgot two quotations, and the CDU politician Frank Steffel was also deprived of his doctoral degree, although he would have written off far less. In the opinion of the AStA, it should therefore not be based on proportionality, but rather on the political calculation of the FU leadership. Should Giffey not only take over the office of mayor from Michael Müller, but also the office of science senator, that would be a declaration of bankruptcy for the science location Berlin.

In a report published on October 28, 2020 for the CDU parliamentary group in Berlin, the legal scholar Klaus Gärditz considered it “likely to be incorrectly judged” that the Senate Administration, as legal supervisor, had not intervened in view of a “conspicuous summation of significant legal violations”. The committee that made the proposal to the FU Presidium not to revoke Giffey's doctoral degree was already not responsible. In addition, it disregarded the case law on plagiarism by weighing the contaminated parts of the doctoral thesis against those that were not objected to and recommended a mere complaint, for which there was also no legal basis. The CDU then called for the proceedings to be rolled out.

On September 22, 2020, the Free University of Berlin commissioned the legal scholar Ulrich Battis with an expert opinion on the question of whether a complaint was lawful, even if the Berlin University Act does not expressly regulate this. According to his report published on November 5, 2020, a complaint in less serious cases is appropriate, legally permissible and required according to the principle of proportionality.

Second review of the doctoral thesis

The Presidium of the Free University of Berlin declared on November 6, 2020 that after taking note of and assessing the available reports by Battis, Gärditz and the Scientific Parliamentary Service, it was clear that a complaint was only permissible in a less serious case, one in the final report of the review committee for the Dissertation was not presented and therefore a new examination should be carried out. On November 18, 2020, the FU Berlin started a renewed review of the doctoral thesis.

On November 13, 2020, Giffey declared that she would no longer use her doctorate in the future, but would continue to remain Federal Minister for Family Affairs and also want to run for the Berlin state chairmanship. After her election as Berlin's state chairman and top candidate in the 2021 House of Representatives election, in an interview published on December 3, 2020 with the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, she confirmed her decision to stand as a top candidate in the 2021 House of Representatives election and to use her doctorate even if her doctorate was withdrawn to waive regardless of the decision of the Free University of Berlin.

On December 13, 2020, the anonymous plagiarism checker, with the pseudonym Robert Schmidt, published his analysis of the final report of the review panel on VroniPlag Wiki and criticized the fact that the first review failed to review 72 passages in the text suspected of being "arbitrarily referenced" . Giffey deliberately cited incorrect sources. For example, she took over a text from a certain source and cited twelve other sources as the source instead of this itself.

The new review committee met for the first time on January 25, 2021. Giffey's doctor's mother Tanja Börzel, who, as chairwoman of the doctoral committee, was involved in setting up the first review board, was not involved in setting up the review board this time. The second review committee included the chairman Sérgio Costa , Kirstin Drenkhahn , Jürgen Neyer, Dieter Ohr, Christian Pestalozza , Joachim Trebbe and Kirsten Jörgensen.

After Giffey was given four weeks to comment on the review panel's report on May 5, 2021, the business magazine Business Insider reported on May 13, 2021 that the review panel should have voted in favor of withdrawing Giffey's doctoral degree. On May 19, 2021, Giffey announced her resignation from the ministerial office.

Withdrawal of the doctoral degree

On June 10, 2021, the Free University of Berlin announced that it would revoke Giffey's doctoral degree as part of the second test procedure . It had been acquired through “deception about the independence of your scientific achievement”, she said as a justification. The decision was taken by the university's executive committee unanimously on the recommendation of the review committee. In their report, the review panel wrote: “The doctoral degree was obtained through at least a limited degree of deliberate deception to a considerable extent. The dissertation therefore does not meet the requirements of good scientific practice. ”Giffey accepted this decision and stated that he had written the submitted work to the best of his knowledge and belief. The mistakes in their work were neither intended nor planned. Her doctor's mother Tanja Börzel accused Giffey of having deceived her in August 2021. She rejected joint responsibility for the plagiarism in the dissertation. She is sorry not to have discovered Giffey's deception.

Plagiarism affair about master's thesis

In August 2021, allegations became known that Giffey had already used numerous plagiarisms in her master's thesis submitted in 2005 to the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and the Wildau Technical University. The linguist Anatol Stefanowitsch made the documentation of the positions on the website "Herzenssache Wissenschaft" public. The Berlin School of Economics and Law , the successor to Giffeys Hochschule, stated that it would not investigate the allegations because the five-year period for reviewing a master’s thesis had expired. The Tagesspiegel pointed out that the work contained no complete plagiarism, but only pawn sacrifices , and that the way of working was similar to that of the dissertation.

Cabinets

• Cabinet Merkel IV , Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth from March 14, 2018 to May 20, 2021
• Senate Giffey , Governing Mayor of Berlin since December 21, 2021

Publications

• Strengthening opportunities for citizenship education at local level - The case of Berlin-Neukölln . In: Ditta Dolejšiová, Miguel Ángel Garciá López (Eds.): European citizenship - In the process of construction. Challenges for citizenship, citizenship education and democratic practice in Europe . Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg 2009, p. 180–191 (English, coe.int [PDF; 88 kB ; accessed on May 19, 2021] under the name Franziska Süllke).
• Europe's Path to Citizens - The European Commission's Policy on Civil Society Participation . Dissertation at the Free University of Berlin . Berlin 2010, doi : 10.17169 / refubium-4980.2 , urn : nbn: de: kobv: 188-refubium-778.2-4 (266 p., Fu-berlin.de [PDF; 2.0 MB ; accessed on May 19, 2021]).
• The importance of language skills and the recognition of vocational and school qualifications for integration . In: Family Partnership Law . No. 10 , 2011, p. 435–439 (with Bernd R. Müller).

Web links

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• Own website
• Franziska Giffey on the website of the State of Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from November 24, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
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3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Biographical information on the website of Franziska Giffey , seen on January 24, 2015. See Designated Family Minister Giffey's prettied curriculum vitae: How the “intern” became the “employee”: The new SPD hopeful Franziska Giffey was with her biography Kreativ , taz, 13. 3. 2018, [1]
4. ↑ District Councilor Dr. Franziska Giffey (SPD). District Office Neukölln, archived from the original on November 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 9, 2018 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Dissertation by Franziska Giffey , online publication, viewed on January 24, 2015
6. ↑ Mighty proud of daughter-in-law volksstimme.de, March 15, 2018
7. ↑ "She always comes across as very ambitious" tagesspiegel.de, March 9, 2018
8. ^ SPD Neukölln elects new district executive spd-neukoelln.de, March 18, 2012
9. ^ Neukölln SPD elects Franziska Giffey as new chairwoman spd-neukoelln.de, May 10, 2014
10. ↑ SPD Neukölln elects new board - Severin Fischer succeeds Franziska Giffey spd-neukoelln.de, April 15, 2018
11. ↑ The Berlin SPD demonstrates unity - and is betting everything on Franziska Giffey tagesspiegel.de, November 28, 2020
12. ↑ Governing mayor falls in the SPD board election by tagesspiegel.de, December 7, 2019
13. ↑ Giffey enforces the middle - Greens and leftists sit down from tagesspiegel.de, April 24, 2021
14. ↑ ^{a b} The result of the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2021 zeit.de, September 27, 2021
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30. ↑ Susanne Vieth-Entus: Neukölln school councilor - “ Day care must not be taboo” , Tagesspiegel, interview from March 19, 2013, online, seen on January 24, 2015
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32. ↑ Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach: CDU wants to return to the previous model: pre-school instead of compulsory daycare . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 26, 2013, online, accessed on January 24, 2015
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34. ↑ Martin Klesmann: First school enrollment in Berlin when I was six . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 24, 2014, online, accessed on January 25, 2015
35. ↑ Martin Klesmann: Problems with early school enrollment . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 27, 2014, online, accessed on January 25, 2015
36. ↑ Martin Klesmann: Achievements in school: Children who started school early repeat more often . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 7, 2014, online, accessed on January 25, 2015
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38. ↑ Sylvia Baumeister: Do daycare centers donate too little? - Franziska Giffey would like to reintroduce preschool . ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Woche , August 15, 2012, online, accessed on January 25, 2015
39. ↑ Martin Klesmann: There is a shortage of teachers in Berlin: career changers can also be good teachers . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 21, 2014, online, accessed on January 25, 2015
40. ↑ Teachers are now civil servants again . In: BZ , March 6, 2011, online, accessed January 25, 2015
41. ↑ Martin Klesmann: school starts in Berlin - Neukölln: Wiederwach protection in schools . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 15, 2012, online, as seen on January 25, 2015
42. ↑ Martin Klesmann: Neukölln - security guards at schools . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 9, 2012, online, accessed on January 25, 2015
43. ↑ Sylvia Vogt: Europe-wide invitation to tender: Neukölln schools will have security guards again from autumn . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 23, 2012, online, accessed on January 25, 2015
44. ↑ Roma status reports from the Neukölln district office, online, accessed on January 25, 2015
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47. ↑ Giffey speaks out in favor of burkinis in swimming lessons. In: tagesschau.de. June 25, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018 . 
48. ↑ Giffey: No religious excuses. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 5, 2018, accessed on September 19, 2021 . 
49. ↑ Anger over statements by the SPD top candidate Giffey wants to have serious criminals deported by Robert Kiesel, Der Tagesspiegel July 4, 2021
50. ↑ Giffey for consistent deportation: Off to Syria and Afghanistan by Anna Klöpper, taz July 4, 2021
51. ↑ Giffey for serious crimes for deportation also to Afghanistan and Syria Der Stern
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57. ↑ "This is clearly scientific misconduct". In: sueddeutsche.de. February 10, 2019, accessed February 27, 2021 . 
58. ↑ If Giffey is smart, she'll step back. In: sueddeutsche.de. April 1, 2019, accessed April 1, 2019 . 
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66. ↑ This is how the FU explains why they only reprimand Giffey. In: tagesspiegel.de. October 31, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 . 
67. ↑ Free University of Berlin decides to appoint Dr. To give Franziska Giffey a reprimand for her dissertation - the doctoral degree will not be withdrawn. In: fu-berlin.de. October 30, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2019 . 
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69. ↑ A little plagiarism is allowed. In: sueddeutsche.de. November 1, 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 . 
70. ↑ "The complaint is a pseudo-sanction". In: tagesspiegel.de. October 31, 2019, accessed February 27, 2021 . 
71. ↑ Giffey copied deliberately. In: faz.net. March 19, 2020, accessed March 19, 2020 . 
72. ↑ Error in the system. In: zeit.de. November 11, 2020, accessed November 11, 2020 . 
73. ↑ Were the plagiarism checkers biased? In: tagesspiegel.de. November 12, 2020, accessed November 12, 2020 . 
74. ↑ Giffey was illegally favored. In: faz.net. August 7, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
75. ↑ Berlin experts see formal errors in the complaint of the FU. In: tagesspiegel.de. August 7, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
76. ↑ Opinion on a number of legal issues in connection with the withdrawal of a doctorate due to the discovery of plagiarism. In: fragdenstaat.de. July 31, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
77. ↑ Müller supports Giffey in a dispute over a doctoral thesis. In: morgenpost.de. August 20, 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 . 
78. ↑ Giffey deceived in 27 places - but was allowed to keep the title. In: tagesspiegel.de. October 5, 2020, accessed October 5, 2020 . 
79. ↑ AStA FU publishes an internal report by the FU Berlin on the doctoral thesis by Federal Family Minister Franziska Giffey. In: astafu.de. October 5, 2020, accessed October 5, 2020 . 
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