Margarita Mathiopoulos

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Margarita Mathiopoulos (2006)

Margarita Mathiopoulos (born May 17, 1956 in Bonn ) is a German entrepreneur and publicist .

Life

education

Margarita Mathiopoulos is the daughter of the Greek-born journalist Basil Petros Mathiopoulos and the Greek-born philologist Elsie Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou . During the takeover of power by the Greek colonel junta in April 1967, Mathiopoulos' father was filming for WDR in Athens . Because of the military coup, he fled to the German embassy with his colleague Thilo Koch . Through the personal commitment of the then Federal German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt , he was flown back to Bonn to his family, as the junta stripped him of his Greek citizenship. In an anthology in 1995, Mathiopoulos describes her memories of her youth under the title A Political Childhood .

After graduating from the Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium , Mathiopoulos studied political science , contemporary history , law , Italian philology and psychology (minor) in Bonn and at the Sorbonne (from November to December 1979 ). In 1980 she completed her studies with a Magister Artium (MA) at the University of Bonn . She then conducted research as a visiting student from 1980 to 1983 with a doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation at the Government Department of Harvard University . Her mentors were Samuel P. Huntington and Richard E. Neustadt.

In 1986, she was at Karl Dietrich Bracher with the subject "history and progress in thinking America: A European-American compared" at the University of Bonn to Dr. phil. PhD; the second reviewer was Wolfgang Bergsdorf . Her dissertation was published in 1987 by Ferdinand Schöningh and was published in 1989 in English translation with a foreword by Gordon A. Craig by Praeger in New York . After repeated allegations of plagiarism, the revocation of the doctorate due to fraud became legally binding in 2017. This decision was upheld by the European Court of Human Rights in December 2018 .

Professional career

From 1975 to 1980 Mathiopoulos was a freelance journalist and presenter at WDR . From 1978 to 1980 she worked as a presenter on regional television for WDR on the programs Here and Today and Our Home - Her Home . From 1977 to 1979 she was also the press attachée of the Cypriot embassy in Bonn. From 1983 to 1985 Mathiopoulos worked as a correspondent for the Greek TV station ERT 1 , from 1985 to 1987 she worked in the management of IBM in Stuttgart in the field of communication and marketing .

In March 1987 Mathiopoulos became known nationwide when the SPD chairman Willy Brandt nominated her for the new post of party spokeswoman , although she was non-party. Brandt saw this as an opportunity to help the SPD gain a progressive image, but the nomination led to severe criticism. In order not to harm Brandt, Mathiopoulos withdrew her application. The dispute in the SPD continued to escalate and Brandt resigned from his position as party chairman on March 23, 1987. On March 23, 1987, the magazine Der Spiegel had the cover Mathiopoulos - Brandt's case . Mathiopoulos and Brandt were shown on the cover.

Mathiopoulos became Vice-Director of the Berlin branch of the Aspen Institute in 1987 and took on teaching positions on US foreign policy and international security at the Free University of Berlin . She had to give up a substitute for the Arnulf Barings chair planned for the winter semester 1989/90 due to the plagiarism allegations made against her .

In late summer 1989 she lectured at Stanford University at the invitation of Gordon A. Craig . In early 1990 she was a Fellow of the German Marshall Fund at the Institute for East West Security Studies in New York. She then taught as a DAAD visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 1992 Mathiopoulos was hired at Norddeutsche Landesbank as Head of Marketing and Communication as well as International Relations. In 1997 she sued the Hanover Labor Court against her dismissal and reached a settlement that guaranteed her compensation of DM 410,000 plus company car. During this time Mathiopoulos held lectures at the University of Hanover and at the Technical University of Braunschweig , which she made an honorary professor in 1995 , as the first woman in the 250-year history of the university.

From 1998 to 2001 Mathiopoulos was chief advisor to the CEO of the British defense group BAE Systems , John Weston, for European and North American markets. From 2000 to 2001, she also chaired an international commission of experts on the restructuring of the Greek armed forces between 2000 and 2015 on behalf of the Greek Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos .

In July 2001 Mathiopoulos founded the EAG European Advisory Group together with the former Inspector General of the Bundeswehr and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Klaus Naumann , the former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt and other partners , of which she has been managing partner since then. The company advised and mediated, among other things, in connection with international armaments deals such as the sale of submarines to Egypt or Croatia . From 2002 to 2018 she was honorary professor for US foreign policy and international security at the University of Potsdam . In the same year she was appointed managing director of the Potsdam Center for Transatlantic Security and Military Affairs . In fact, this center, propagated as a “military-political think tank”, never started its work because of a lack of funding.

In 2002 she joined the FDP , where she had been active on the program commission in the field of foreign and security policy since 2001. Since then she has also acted as a foreign and security policy advisor to the then Federal Chairman Guido Westerwelle . From 2003 to 2005 Mathiopoulos was chairman of the FDP Federal Committee on International Politics and, since 2005, chairman (and the only named member) of the newly founded Transatlantic Forum of the FDP, which was "extensively supported" by the economy . In August 2012 she was replaced by Rainer Stinner .

In September 2006 Mathiopoulos founded addition as managing partner for EAG European Advisory Group , the Aspide GmbH .

Margarita Mathiopoulos was a member of the board of trustees of Netzwerk Quadriga gGmbH .

Private

From 1987 to 2006 Mathiopoulos was married to the CDU politician Friedbert Pflüger . In 2003 she separated from Pflüger after he had started a relationship with his personal advisor.

Allegations of plagiarism

In a review of her dissertation, political scientist Andreas Falke raised allegations of plagiarism as early as 1989.

On September 11, 1989, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported that Mathiopoulos' dissertation contained “blemishes” because “in several places” passages had been copied “almost verbatim” from the work of others without these passages being shown as quotations , and cited examples; Furthermore, it is reported in the article that Mathiopoulos had communicated through her lawyer that she “made 'obviously' regrettable 'careless mistakes' in those places where the sources were not disclosed. According to Spiegel, the doctoral supervisor was "'very concerned that the working methods used in some places do not correspond to scientific practices'", but sees "the core of Ms. Mathiopoulos 'intellectual performance not being impaired'" The doctoral degree was initially not withdrawn , although the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn, which had awarded the doctoral degree, wrote in an expert report, according to the Spiegel, “that in the work 'literally and logically, more was taken over' than it was Evidence of quotations'. "

When the Berliner Zeitung in July 2002 in an article on the occasion of Mathiopoulos' entry into the FDP, citing the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, about the accusations that have long been known and have already been made public by other print media, that Mathiopoulos had not cited the sources of some citations in her dissertation , reported that, according to Spiegel, Mathiopoulos took legal action against it, but withdrew her application at the hearing "on the advice of the judge".

From April 2011 , the dissertation was examined for plagiarism by the VroniPlag Wiki , which has set itself the goal of collaborative documentation of plagiarism in dissertations. According to VroniPlag Wiki, plagiarism found sites were known on a total of 18 pages in 1991, which corresponds to 5 percent of the pages (without foreword, table of contents, bibliography, appendix, etc.). According to VroniPlag Wiki (as of July 19, 2011), however, plagiarism can be found on more than 46 percent of the pages.

The doctoral committee of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn decided in July 2011 to re-examine the dissertation, because according to the Dean Günther Schulz , the research by VroniPlag Wiki had revealed new facts. On April 18, 2012, it was decided to revoke her doctorate. On December 6, 2012, the Cologne Administrative Court upheld the decision of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn, which had rightly assumed that Mathiopoulos had "taken large passages of her dissertation literally from other works". In March 2015, the OVG Münster approved the revision with reference to “particular difficulties in the case”. In particular, the question should be clarified how a university decision from 1991 on allegations of plagiarism already raised at that time should be assessed. Mathiopoulos has appealed to the Federal Administrative Court. On June 21, 2017, the court rejected the appeal.

The Technical University of Braunschweig and the University of Potsdam announced that they would withdraw the honorary professorships awarded to them as soon as the withdrawal of the doctoral degree is legally binding. The European Court of Human Rights ruled on October 4, 2018 (complaint number 38128/18) that Mathiopoulos' complaint against the decision of the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig was inadmissible; Mathiopoulos has thus definitely lost her doctorate.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

Editorships

  • The new Europe. A European-American dialogue at the Humboldt University Bouvier Verlag, Bonn / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-416-02397-8 (contributions partly in German, partly in English).

Editions

  • The New Europe - A European-American Dialogue at Humboldt University . Bonn / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-416-02397-8 (contributions partly in German, partly in English).
  • Willy Brandt . Pictures from the life of a great European . Photos by Jupp Darchinger, essay and texts by Margarita Mathiopoulos. Droemer / Knaur-Verlag, Munich 1993. ISBN 3-426-26745-4 .

Articles in scientific journals

  • On the US containment policy. Strategies from Roosevelt to Reagan , in: Politics and Culture, Volume 10, No. 3/1983, pp. 65–76, ISSN  0340-5869 .
  • Greece before the EPC presidency: Between adaptation and special role (together with Roswitha Bourguignon-Wittke), in: Integration, No. 3/1983, pp. 106–120, ISSN  0720-5120 .
  • The US Presidency and the German Question during the Adenauer to Kohl Chancellorships , in: Außenpolitik, English Edition, Vol. 39, No. 4/1988, pp. 348–364, ISSN  0004-8194 .
  • US presidency and the German question in the chancellorship from Adenauer to Kohl , in: Außenpolitik, Vol. 39, No. 4/1988, pp. 353-370, ISSN  0004-8194 .
  • La maison commune européenne: Résurgence de l'idée d'evolution par le rapprochement , in: Cosmopolitiques, No. 9/1989, pp. 14-23, ISSN  0296-6131 .
  • Gorbachev's “common European house”. Resurrection of Change through Approach? , in: Europäische Rundschau, Volume 17, No. 2/1989, pp. 13–23, ISSN  0304-2782 .
  • La Constitution Americaine oubliée par l'Histoire , in: Cosmopolitique, No. 14-15 / 1990, pp. 51-57, ISSN  0296-6131 .
  • Une Universitè en Émoi, in: Documents: Revue des Questions Allemandes , No. 3/1991, pp. 34–40, ISSN  0151-0827 .
  • Fin du communisme, fin de l'utopie ?, in: Documents: Revue des Questions Allemandes , No. 4-5 / 1992, ISSN  0151-0827 .
  • The American President seen through German Eyes - Continuity and Change from the Adenauer to Kohl era , Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. XV, No. 4, Fall 1985. JSTOR 27550271
  • End of utopia? European Enlightenment versus Nationalist Restoration , Europäische Rundschau, No. 4, 1993, 21st year, ISSN  0304-2782 .
  • Considerations on the Federal Republic of Germany, Presidential Studies Quarterly , Vol. XXIV, No. 3, Summer 1994. JSTOR 27551286
  • Kohl's new Federal Republic. The Bonn Republic, its sins and enemies , in: Die Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, Volume 41, No. 10/1994, pp. 912–925, ISSN  0177-6738 .
  • Hermann Axen - victim, perpetrator, court Jew , in: Julius H. Schoeps et al. (Ed.): Menorah . Yearbook for German-Jewish History 1995, Munich 1995, pp. 301–315, ISBN 3-492-12132-2 .
  • Stability through Displacement? , Die Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, No. 5, May 1995.
  • Why our economy is fleeing , in: Controller Magazin, Volume 21, No. 5/1996, pp. 279–285, ISSN  0939-0359 .
  • The end of the Papandreou era , Die Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, No. 3, March 1996.
  • Toward an Aegean Treaty: "2 + 4" for Turkey and Greece , in: Mediterranean Quarterly, Washington, Vol. 8, Summer 1997, ISSN  1047-4552
  • The USA and Europe as global actors in the 21st century , in: Foreign Policy, German Edition, Vol. 49, 4th Quarter 1998, pp. 39–54, ISSN  0004-8194 .
  • Global Players in the 21st Century , in: NATO's Nations, No. 2/1999, pp. 22-24, ISSN  1566-9009 .
  • Saint Malo and beyond - Towards European Defense (together with Istvan Gyarmati), in: The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2/1999, pp. 65-76, ISSN  0163-660X .
  • The United States and Europe as Global Players in the 21st Century , in: Central European Review, No. 25, June / July 1999, pp. 26-31, ISSN  1232-0447 .
  • The German Defense Review: Security According To The Budget? , in: Military Technology, Vol. XXIV, Issue 10, 2000, page 4, ISSN  0722-3226 .
  • It Takes Two To Tango - A Farewell to Nato Secretary General Goerge Robertson , in: NATO's Nations, Issue 3, 2003, pp. 42–44, ISSN  1566-9009
  • No change of power without a change in mentality , Swiss Monthly Bullets, 10/11, October, November 2005 ( excerpt )
  • Hillary for President? , Cicero, May 2006
  • PMC's and PSC's in the Global Military Bazaar , The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, 1/2007 ( summary )

Web links

Commons : Margarita Mathiopoulos  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photocopy of a notary deed In: sverigesradio.se (PDF; 369 kB)
  2. ↑ In Memoriam Basil P. Mathiopoulos (1928–2013) ( Memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) - Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation , February 27, 2013.
  3. ^ Frank-Walter Steinmeier: Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the death of Basil Mathiopoulos. In: spdfraktion.de. March 29, 2013. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Self-portrait of childhood and youth in: Florian Langenscheidt (ed.): With us at home. Celebrities talk about their childhood. Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-430-15945-8 .
  5. ↑ Margarita Mathiopoulos: America: the experiment of progress: a comparison of political thought in the USA and Europe . Schöningh, Paderborn 1987, ISBN 978-3-506-75405-9 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  6. ^ Margarita Mathiopoulos: History and progress: In search of the European and American mind . Translation by Jessie Lenagh, foreword by Gordon A. Craig . Praeger, New York 1989, ISBN 0-275-92792-X ( digitized version of the online library Questiahttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.questia.com%2Fread%2F10054587%2Fhistory-and-progress-in-search-of-the-european-and~GB%3D~IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3DDigitalisat% 20der% 20online% 20Bibliothek% 20Questia ~ PUR% 3D ). LCCN 89-008841 .  
  7. ↑ Withdrawal of the doctoral degree due to deception in the preparation of the dissertation is lawful. June 21, 2017. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Legal Tribune Online June 22, 2017: BVerwG on long-standing plagiarism affair. No doctorate for Mathiopoulos
  9. ↑ Legal Tribune Online March 3, 2018: Science Plagiarism. A human right to a doctoral cap?
  10. ^ Plagiarism: Political advisor Mathiopoulos loses her doctorate. In: Spiegel Online . December 11, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018 .
  11. ^ "Past the heart of the party" Der Spiegel of March 23, 1987
  12. ↑ Bert-Oliver Manig: Willy's farewell . Calendar sheet on Deutschlandfunk, March 23, 2007.
  13. ↑ DER SPIEGEL issue 13/1987 of March 23, 1987
  14. ↑ Lydia Harder: Source? Oops, forget! "Careless mistakes" in the dissertation did not harm Margarita Mathiopoulos. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. February 19, 2011, accessed March 15, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Anna von Muenchhausen: Margarita creams off. How the NordLB wanted to polish up its image with a super woman and has to bleed properly for it. In: The time . November 28, 1997. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Honorary Professors. In: tu-braunschweig.de. TU Braunschweig, accessed on March 15, 2017 .
  17. ↑ See corrections to issue 06/2011 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 2011, p. 13 ( online ). The original article “ Codename Prayer Circle . In: Der Spiegel . No.
     6 , 2011 ( online ). “ Has since been amended because of Mathiopoulos' injunction .
  18. ^ A passionate diplomat In: Handelsblatt , March 3, 2011, page 55.
  19. ↑ Margarita Mathiopoulos: The title dispute continues. In: FOCUS Magazin, No. 13/2015. March 21, 2015, accessed March 15, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Martin Klesmann: Ex-General Jörg Schönbohm wants to save the project with the help of the Federal FDP: Potsdam Security Institute from the end. In: Berliner Zeitung. November 1, 2002, accessed March 15, 2017 .
  21. ^ Mathias Hamann: Mathiopoulos under suspicion of plagiarism: honorary professor in the title fight. In: Spiegel Online . July 12, 2011, accessed March 15, 2017 .
  22. ^ Annual Report of the Free Democratic Party 2007–2009: Transatlantic Forum. (PDF; 9.15 MB) In: fdp.de. May 2009, p. 48f , accessed on March 15, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Wulf Oehme: STINNER derives Transatlantic Forum of the FDP. In: liberale.de. August 3, 2012, accessed on March 15, 2017 (FDP press release).
  24. ↑ Biography: Margarita Mathiopoulos. (No longer available online.) In: aspidepartners.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017 ; accessed on March 15, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aspidepartners.com
  25. ↑ Scenes from a Marriage. (No longer available online.) In: Park Avenue , 9/2006 issue. September 2006, archived from the original on March 16, 2017 ; accessed on March 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parkavenue.de
  26. ↑ mmdoku.wikia.com on the chronology of the allegations of plagiarism and the criticism of Margarita Mathiopoulos' dissertation, see: Chronology
  27. ↑ Gert Krell: Another bad ending for a dissertation? Margarita Mathiopoulos plagiarism case. In: FAZ . September 15, 2011, p. N5 , archived from the original on September 23, 2011 ; retrieved on September 23, 2011 : "How could it be that Andreas Falke - today Professor of Foreign Studies with a focus on the United States at the University of Erlangen / Nuremberg, at that time an employee at the American Embassy in Bonn - who early on raised allegations of plagiarism, were massive political pressures exerted by the author's personal environment, which reached up to the very top of Bonn? Falke published its plagiarism allegations, which are still relatively modest from today's perspective, based on four titles in an extremely critical review overall. "
  28. ↑ a b Dissertations: Core of the achievement. The doctoral thesis of the almost executive spokeswoman of the SPD, Margarita Mathiopoulos, shows astonishing parallels . In: Der Spiegel . No.  37 , 1989, pp. 61-62 ( online ).
  29. ^ Hermann Horstkotte: Doctoral theses: Bonn forbearance with plagiarism . Zeit Online , May 16, 2011, (p. 2 in the PDF version, accessed on June 22, 2011). “Now the FDP European politician Georgios Chatzimarkakis is also under suspicion of plagiarism. The University of Bonn is in demand - it decided earlier cases in a remarkably mild light ”.
  30. ↑ a b Press law: Without proof . In: Der Spiegel . No.  34 , 2002, p. 95 ( online ).
  31. ^ Christian Bommarius: A success is viewed. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 8, 2002, p. 1, (accessed July 1, 2011)
  32. ↑ A critical examination of the dissertation by Prof. Dr. Margarita Mathiopoulos: America: the experiment of progress , version of June 13, 2011, 10:36 p.m., in: VroniPlag Wiki (accessed June 21, 2011)
  33. ↑ A critical examination of the dissertation by Prof. Dr. Margarita Mathiopoulos: America: the experiment of progress. In: VroniPlag Wiki . Retrieved June 29, 2011 . (Linked to the current version.)
  34. ↑ him: suspicion of plagiarism: University of Bonn check Mathiopoulos-thesis again . In: Spiegel Online , July 12, 2011
  35. ↑ Margarita Mathiopoulos loses her doctorate. Scientific misconduct proven. In: University of Bonn. April 18, 2012, accessed March 15, 2017 .
  36. ^ Journal of Administrative Law Online: VG Köln: Plagiarism case Mathiopoulos. In: zvr-online.com. January 16, 2013, accessed on March 15, 2017 (VG Cologne, ruling of December 6, 2012 - 6 K 2684/12 - “Mathiopoulos plagiarism case”. ZVR-Online Doc. No. 11/2013).
  37. ↑ Hermann Horstkotte: Plagiarism case: Procedure for Mathiopoulos' doctorate before appeal. In: spiegel.de. March 13, 2015, accessed on March 15, 2017 (printed in: DER SPIEGEL 12/2015, page 18).
  38. ↑ Withdrawal of the doctoral degree due to deception in the preparation of the dissertation is lawful. June 21, 2017. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .
  39. ^ Dpa: University of Bonn: FDP advisor must submit a doctorate. In: Kölnische Rundschau. April 18, 2012, accessed March 15, 2017 .
  40. ^ Faculty Council of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam passes resolution on the honorary professorship of Margarita Mathiopoulos In: Medieninformation der Universität Potsdam No. 2012-086 of May 9, 2012
  41. ^ Political advisor Mathiopoulos loses her doctorate. In: Spiegel-Online. December 11, 2018, accessed May 8, 2019 .
  42. ↑ on the reply from 1992: https://twitter.com/pbahners/status/1072557204274851840?s=21
  43. ↑ Hillary for President? In: Cicero Online. May 2006, accessed on March 15, 2017 (online article without author's name).
personal data
SURNAME Mathiopoulos, Margarita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn