S.In September, the Chancellor of the Free University of Berlin, Andrea Bör, commissioned a personnel agency to find applicants for the office of the new president to be elected next year. Using a recruiting agency to find senior university staff is not an uncommon process. However, Bör placed the order single-handedly and bypassed the responsible university bodies. Thereupon the Presidium of the FU filed a complaint against the Chancellor, as confirmed by the Senate Chancellery in October. It was said at the time that it was being checked.
Bör is considered an opponent of the incumbent President Günter M. Ziegler, who wants to run for president again. A five-figure fee was agreed with the personnel agency, a large portion of which was paid, although the contract was withdrawn by the personnel agency itself after it learned of the discrepancies at the FU.
The Academic Senate (AS) of the Freie Universität Berlin (FU) meets on Wednesday and will deal with the “award of contracts to an external personnel service provider in the preparatory process for the election of the president of the Freie Universität” in the non-public part of the meeting.
File inspection requested
The research policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group in the House of Representatives, Adrian Grasse, sent written questions to the executive senator for science, Berlin’s governing mayor Michael Müller (SPD), which were only partially answered. He then applied to inspect the files at the FU. He was able to attend the file inspection appointment last week.
Grasse is bothered by the fact that a fee was paid at all, although the service provider himself had asked for the contract to be terminated. It should be checked whether the chancellor’s solo effort does not constitute a breach of trust, says Grasse. Because by commissioning the personnel consultancy without the involvement and resolution of the corresponding committees – Presidium or Academic Senate – the Chancellor exceeded her competencies.
The impression that the Chancellor considers the incumbent president unsuitable to continue to exercise his office and that she wanted to prevent another term of office – apparently at any cost – was confirmed by his inspection of the files, according to Grasse. It goes without saying that personal antipathy does not justify such an approach. “I therefore expect the Senate to finally act as a legal supervisor and examine the matter immediately,” demanded the CDU MP.
As can be heard from the FU, the Chancellor is to be given a reprimand for her actions. The FU had already made its experiences with the complaint in the case of plagiarism of the future governing mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey.
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