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Dispensation from obligations
The former Education Minister Annette Schavan requested the Free University of Berlin to grant her “Dispensation
from her honorary professorship”. Schavan received this from the FU in the year 2008 for her “Services to science
and society” in the subject of Catholic theology. Schavan gave as the reason for this request her new office, which
makes her the Ambassador to the Vatican.
It may be a bureaucratic farce, that one office must follow another by dispensation; it could however also be the
biggest joke of all time, which Annette Schavan, the woman who likes to put her foot in her mouth, continues to
tell, as if it were the only thing in her otherwise sad life, which she must now spend without a doctorate, since
it became known that she should have “formulated more thoroughly” some text references in her doctorate thesis.
Since Mrs. Schavan is clearly not very capable of this, such a title is a useful habit, since the University of
Lübeck quickly awarded her a “Dr. h. c.” – perhaps yet another necessary bureaucratic step? Mrs. Schavan was in
any event not suitable for such an honourable doctorate, no, she should rather be credited for the channelling of
tax funds as subsidies for the University of Lübeck for the support of the Medical Faculty, which was to be closed
by the black-yellow state government.
This may all appear a little as if Schavan had made these agreements at the time she was still in the government,
and was Merkel’s best friend, and which she is now putting into practice even without a seat in the government.
And that is also so because the closure of a University is no great advertisement for the work of the
Schleswig-Holstein CDU, and would not be to the taste of her bosom friend, who just happens to be the leader
of the Christian Democrats. In the end, the CDU just managed to win in Schleswig, and the closure of a seat of
learning stirs up too many awkward questions. This is not at all what the dictator Merkel wants to see.
Two things therefore become clear: Tax funds are misused to beautify the work results of the parties, and the word
of a politician means something. It is just so frightening that it just unfortunately causes this misuse to be used
to cover up failures. Overall not a very attractive image of the idea of political democracy. A hand may wash the
other, but the water could be clearer. Let us wish Mrs. Schavan some good contacts in Rome with the really
powerful, and may she find the encouragement and peace which revel in the glory of a Schavan. And let us hope
that we as German citizens are no longer bothered by nor have to pay for such theatricals. And let us remember
ancient Rome, where politicians still washed their hands in innocence (a political back door, which could well
get under Mrs. Schavan’s skin); and let us remember the 8th Commandment: “Thou shalt not lie”, something which
politicians in particular should allow themselves to be measured by. What a pity that there is no God who could
take action against such professional liars – the hands of the people are tied.
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