By Stefan Sasse
There are two things that Guttenberg has done without a doubt. The first is to abolish the military draft. This was a Herculean political power that is not the policy for 20 years, succeeded, although four of five parties, they regularly call in their election programs. That it is a politicians of the fifth party that has always stood up for them, has prepared its end is significant: the principle of "Nixon goes to China " has once again displayed its accuracy. The second performance, he has only fired, but without him it would be hard to imagine: he has brought Germany the most exciting political scandal in years. One must also appreciate that. In the last 13 days, so much has happened, added so much new information that it's worth the initial analysis to undergo a general review and to see again what has actually happened and what lessons can be learned from it now.
When the affair at 16.02. began I was convinced it were a trifle. Eight footnotes made false Lord God, that's nothing bad. Well, this assessment was a serious mistake. appeared as more mistakes, the scope was more clearly emerged, and the weekend (19./20.2.) figured it out already an hour with his resignation. Known, it was different. While I gathered the biggest numbers at all times on this blog because I all the network found jokes semi-plagiarized collected here have (oh, the irony), to Guttenberg, defended by the only strategy that he stood by the resignation: He was a part of debt rolled over from one part and played down the large Rest probably overwhelmed by the pressure to decide the government stood behind him. The danger seemed averted, and beginning the following week to stabilize Guttenberg everywhere predicted: the backlash began, masterfully promoted by the Springer press, which withdrew an aggressive pro-Guttenberg campaign that got along most of the working day reporting without an antagonist and therefore Sun had an opinion-forming, that it seemed as if Guttenberg actually strengthened from the crisis go.
This had, however, the weekend of 26./27.2. changed again. The campaign has since fallen Springer widespread criticism. Straight the mirror fencers have managed to land with his discovery of the remarkable relationship Pro-Guttenberg campaign on Facebook and the Springer Group perhaps the first scoop of a political blog in Germany. Although the temporal coincidence may be accidental - with the weekend began an aggressive counter-campaign. The return of the doctoral degree, legally impossible in reality, gave him the hilt of the action again in the hand, he seemed to stand above it all and took the inevitable decision of Bayreuth in advance. The hearings of the opposition on Wednesday, 23.2., Guttenberg appeared to put away yet, because the tone was aggressive and the fans to bring something of so little from the rest , Were particularly thanks to the energetic indignation of FIG. In fact, it seemed that it would only strengthen these attacks even more. The peak of insolence was reached when on Thursday (24.2.) Attempted to shift the blame on Professor Häberle, just as if the act is not the worst, but that it was not noticed immediately.
It however, appears monthly in a kind of recollection of many people have found their accounts. Well-known conservative politician convicted Guttenberg's actions, virtually every leading media presented with the exception of the Springer publishing house decided against him and the mirror was on Monday, 28.2., with a massive attack on the IMAGE to. Guttenberg's affair after all, has so good that the media have gone through a painful self-recognition process. There is at least hoped, that must have something of the ugly caricature that some media people there saw in the mirror to stick in the memories remain. The declaration of war of the mirror to the image in any case their ratio is expected only once murky term. While the media began to dismantle the existing sovereignty Show Guttenberg (even with the Keep-the-thief-trick, they simply move to the Springer press alone in the shoes), broke on Sunday, 27.2. And Monday 28.2. with all the violence, the long silent academic World the staff of Guttenberg. Professors and graduate students wrote open letters, Guttenberg declared no longer viable. Even CDU Science Minister Annette Schavan, who was once a serious scientist, declared himself "not only secretly ashamed of Guttenberg.
Come to the sideshow of media self-cleaning, we thus to the heart of the matter. Guttenberg has landed with his plagiarism a direct blow against science. That is one thing. have done with his lie, the whole somehow subconsciously (and that's a lie, says one part common sense and also the experience of everyone who ever such a work has produced), he landed a direct blow to the conservatism in Germany and the civic values. . Both are worth further consideration
The blow to the science is clear: how can we ever seriously pursue science as a proofreader and have the legitimacy to demand decent work when others get away with such a striking violation? This is completely impossible. At the same time, and that is subtle and is reflected in its consequences, probably in the next few weeks and months, the Guttenberg'sche plagiarism regardless of the fate of the minister but the educational and scientific policy of the government delegitimized: How Merkel wants to rant seriously because of the "republic of education" and the value of education philosophy, if they abbürstet other hand, criticism of Guttenberg with the reference to have set no scientific assistants? Any educational policy of the government dismantled it really. A shadow like this, when the opposition is clever, remain even after Guttenberg's resignation.
At least the University of Bayreuth must also dropped the charge of political interference can: Guttenberg was manifestly contrary to the just-published statements of the supervisor's Häberle not a very good student. His graduation was only a bad "Satisfactory" - according to the rules of legal science so that we may not even graduate. This was made by a Guttenberg dispensation of another professor, the dean, which allowed "exception". This professor is close to the CSU, as he points out even on his own homepage. To be approved, Guttenberg had also submit two bills, which were graded as "good" or better - ironically he had made just for Häberle and another now emeritus professor. ( Link ) A rise from mediocre student at Summa cum Laude-doctoral students is of course possible - but unlikely. In addition, the counterfeit products in Guttenberg noticed are already working in the seven months - but the professors in Munster advised the discoverer to keep quiet until he had written something of his own. The background of this maneuver can only be a certain amount of academic arrogance: do you only own what times before you dare to play the Netzbeschmutzer! It makes sense, it may be hard to hold something back, and the professor in question had indeed themselves can play the whistle. But if he has not, out of a false consideration for the "colleagues".
The blow to the bourgeois values - decency, respect for property, honesty - but it is, the Guttenberg in special and Union in general, the greatest problems arise. The rest could wipe it aside, but anyone who is complaining is seriously conservative and does not only Friedrich Merz level but must rise Zornesröte face. Guttenberg's built next to the massive rise of almost obsequious and uncritical reporting of all media to those same values that he embodied in his person. Nothing than a bad joke is left over, his reputation as a person is just gone like the Otto Graf Lambsdorff, when he was convicted of tax evasion. Guttenberg did not only damaged himself, but the whole Union. How can anyone talk seriously of decency who abuses the deaths of soldiers in Afghanistan to be redeem himself? It may be that he is taking in a few years as a purified sinners a comeback - again with these values, but he will not peddle.
This has smudging his misconduct Write to Merkel on the flags. It was she who had decided last weekend not to act like this could actually installed and to force the resignation of Guttenberg, but sit out in the best manner of the whole carbon-try. In that the government in unquestioning loyalty to the baron known, she is caught with mitgehangen. Everything Guttenberg has screwed up will fall on Merkel. His case it tears at least a piece of by far. Mappus may have miscalculated its aggressive support of the Baron also to do another political disaster for S21, only this time just before the parliamentary elections.
remains the question of what long-term consequences of this scandal is. The CDU / CSU is now in any case have enormous legitimacy problem, whenever it comes to the defense of "intellectual property" and thus kowtow to all the before the music industry is, whenever you want to make University policy and whenever you want to draw on traditional bourgeois values. However, that a fall in the abyss Merkel Guttenberg actually tear and should destroy coalition I consider unlikely - even if it were of course welcome.
For the evaluation of the person Guttenberg and their rise is also currently appearing Guttenberg biography of Eckhart Lohse and Markus Wehner, the career of Baron precisely evaluated important. It is interesting above all that Guttenberg was trimmed from the beginning of his vita : father and grandfather him bleut that not the message, but its presentation is important and could hold him for 13 first public speeches. Such details show even more examples of the great problem with the Elitenpräservation in Germany: who is the top one stays up, if he actually does anything or not. Guttenberg practiced from childhood to present ourselves, the great show of sovereignty, is now a house of cards collapsed immediately. Nothing about the baron out of the gel in your hair is real: doctored the vita and from the beginning allows only possible by the extraordinary richness of the House, interesting way stations freely invented or exaggerated, embellished own performance significantly and, ultimately, anything done, except in the mechanisms of this elite reproduction is not beyond the pale to fall out of the ordinary - until now. Fleischhauer therefore has the same right and wrong in Guttenberg's misconduct as symptomatic of the nobility and the bourgeoisie viewed: Guttenberg has worn-symbolic of both groups because he represented both - even though both are now distancing themselves from him.
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