The University of Hamburg is investigating indications of possible scientific misconduct on the part of constitutional judge candidate Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf. She has been nominated for the election by the SPD, but is rejected by parts of the CDU/CSU. 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. This also concerns the husband of the lawyer now working at the University of Potsdam, Hubertus Gersdorf. There were also reports against the professor at the University of Leipzig. The Berlin newspaper "Tagesspiegel" had previously reported on this.
