German minister denies falsifying CV
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German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen yesterday defended claims on her resume of stints at Stanford University, after a report that the prestigious American institution had called them into question.
Von der Leyen, who is caught in a storm over allegations she plagiarized parts of her doctoral thesis, issued a statement after the Welt am Sonntag newspaper quoted a Stanford spokeswoman as saying she might have misused the university鈥檚 name.
The minister states on her CV published online that she was an 鈥渁uditing guest at Stanford University鈥檚 Graduate School of Business鈥 in 1993.
The document also specifies a residence in 1995 at Stanford Health Services Hospital Administration.
The spokeswoman was quoted as saying, however, that von der Leyen was never registered in any university program officially that could be proven with some form of certificate.
鈥淭hose who include the university in their CV without such certificates would be misusing the name of Stanford,鈥 she said.
Von der Leyen, however, dismissed the report, saying 鈥渢he information in my official CV is correct.鈥
As proof of her time at Stanford Health Services Hospital Administration, she included a copy of a letter signed by an assistant hospital director.
As for the other allegation, the minister said she qualified as an auditing guest 鈥渁ccording to the definition on Wikipedia.de.鈥
Meanwhile, authorities at the Hanover medical school where von der Leyen obtained her doctorate in the 1990s are currently examining the allegations of plagiarism reported by Der Spiegel weekly in late September.
The magazine claimed that more than 40 percent of her dissertation contained plagiarized text 鈥 an assertion the defense minister has firmly denied.
A lot of value and prestige is placed on academic titles in Germany, and three senior German politicians have stepped down from their jobs since 2011 after becoming embroiled in plagiarism scandals.
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