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Georgios ("Jorgo") Chatzimarkakis (born on 21 April 1966 in Duisburg) is a German politician of Greek descent, Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany (part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe).
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (*)
Education & Career
Chatzimarkakis was born and grew up in Duisburg. In 1993 he graduated as M.A. in political science at the philosophical faculty of the University of Bonn. He supplemented his studies with a visiting research fellowship at the University of Oxford under the auspices of Ralf Dahrendorf in 1995. From 1993 to 1996 Chatzimarkakis worked as a science policy officer at the Bundestag.
From 1996 to 1998, he was member of the planning department of the Foreign Office of Germany. Chatzimarkakis held a lectureship at the University of Duisburg from 1997 to 2001, during which time he also worked on his doctoral thesis on Informational Globalism - A cooperation model of global governance using the example of electronic commerce (Informationeller Globalismus - Kooperationsmodell globaler Ordnungspolitik am Beispiel des Elektronischen Geschäftsverkehrs ). In 2011 the University of Bonn revoked his doctoral title. The committee charged him guilty of plagiarism in his thesis.
Chatzimarkakis is married and has two daughters.
Political Activities
Chatzimarkakis is a member of the national executive committee of the FDP and of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party council since 1995. From 2002 to 2010 he was secretary-general of the FDP regional association of the Saarland. He is a founding member of the Dahrendorfkreis, a wing of the FDP that advocates for sustainable liberalism. After the FDP lost two regional elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, Chatzimarkakis was one of the main critics of the party leader Guido Westerwelle.
Chatzimarkakis has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2004. He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries as well as on the Committee on Budgetary Control, for which he is a coordinator. He also chairs the Delegation of the European Union to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Plagiarism
In 2000 Chatzimarkakis received a doctor's degree at the University of Bonn. However the crowdsourcing project VroniPlag allegedly found several cases of plagiarism in the thesis. In May 2011 the University announced that it was investigating the claims at the request of Chatzimarkakis himself and on July 13 the University announced that the doctorate would be revoked after finding that more than half of the thesis was not correctly referenced. The Philosophical department of the university criticised that quotations marks were missing, but acknowledged that were footnotes. In a public speech, Chatzimarkakis criticized his then supervisors. He stated that already then they were aware that he was not correctly referencing [1] . In one of the discussions on the crowd sourcing platform Vroniplag, a user stated that one should be aware that the university of Bonn was known for tolerating a "sluggish way of referencing.", giving an example of another sluggish PhD [2] . In November 2011, the founder of VroniPlag, Martin Heidingsfelder, was excluded from the crowd sourcing project because he publicly insulted Chatzimarkakis as being Greek [3]. Already in August 2011, Heidingsfelder has been criticized as being financially interested in VroniPlag because here secured the name rights for VroniPlag [4]. Chatzimarkakis also accused Heidngsfelder of having financial interests [5]. Heidingsfelder refuted the claim, but is also accused of his Social Democratic affiliation [6].
Other activities
Before his political career in the European Parliament, Chatzimarkakis was managing director of the consultancy "polit data concept" and of the "Perl Academy". He is a founding member of the German-Greek Industrial Association (DHW) and was elected its president in 2004 [7].
Criticism
On Monday 12 September 2011, Vice Chancellor Philipp Rösler, wrote an article in the newspaper Die Welt, explaining the possible benefits of a Greek bankruptcy for the rest of the Eurozone. Chatzimarkakis criticized his party leader as not supporting investors to engage in Greece [8]. Rölser was heavily criticized by German media and major German politicians for his statement [9].
References
^ http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/jobundberuf/0,1518,773334,00.html
^ http://de.vroniplag.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Freiz%C3%BCgiger_Zitierstil_an_der_Uni_Bonn
^ http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article13698431/VroniPlag-wirft-Gruender-Heidingsfelder-raus.html
^ http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article13529200/VroniPlag-Gruender-sichert-sich-Namensrechte.html
^ http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/martin-heidingsfelder-web-attacken-gegen-vroniplag-gruender_aid_652719.html
^ http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/martin-heidingsfelder-web-attacken-gegen-vroniplag-gruender_aid_652719.html
^ http://www.dhwv.de/
^ http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article13605647/Chatzimarkakis-haelt-Roeslers-Insolvenzidee-fuer-fatal.html
^ http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/griechenlanddebatte100.html
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