Karl-Theodor Zu Guttenberg
In February 2011 the German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung published allegations of plagiarism in the dissertation of German Minister of Defence Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. The allegations were based on a review for a legal journal prepared by a law professor from Bremen. zu Guttenberg at first denied the accusations, but the evidence that was collected on the crowdsourced wiki GuttenPlag Wiki was mounting. The University of Bayreuth swiftly rescinded the doctorate and zu Guttenberg stepped down from all political offices. The documentation of the plagiarism showed text parallels on 94% of the pages and 63% of the lines from over 130 sources.
Read more about this topic: List Of Plagiarism Controversies, Politics