The University of Leipzig refused to take the German Chancellor Angela Merkel after she retired. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
Alma Mater Chancellor claims that Merkel did not deal with his scientific career since 1990. “From an academic point of view, the University of Leipzig is currently not considered to accept the work of Mrs. Dr. Merkel in the context of its scientific knowledge (physics – approx.” Renta.ru “)” – it is said in a written response of a school.
Angela Merkel studied at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Leipzig from 1973 to 1978. In 1986, Chancellor defended her thesis at the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, and she was assigned a doctorate of natural sciences. In 2008, Chancellor received an honorary doctoral degree of the University of Leipzig.
Earlier, Angela Merkel reported that after the resignation would continue to live in his apartment in Berlin. She and her spouse Yoachim Sauer live in an apartment in the very center of the German capital. There are no fences around the building, the adjacent territory is fully open. The politician lived in the house before he became a chancellor, and retained his apartment, taking the post of head of government. She refused to move to office accommodation.