Universities – Hanover – Because of damaged tires: Police officer ends teaching assignment – education

Hanover (dpa / lni) – After criticism from parts of the student body, a police officer has ended his teaching assignment at the University of Hanover. At the weekend, his car was willfully damaged and he saw a connection with the dispute over his teaching position, a university spokeswoman told the German press agency on Monday. Several media had previously reported on it. The sociologist, who is also an active police officer in Lower Saxony, informed the university management about his decision at the weekend.

“We deeply regret that,” said the university spokeswoman. It’s probably about a punctured tire. “If there is a causality between the teaching assignment and the damage to property, we condemn this very clearly.” According to a police spokesman, investigators found a metal pin in a tire of the car.

The policeman had offered a seminar on “Police and Crime”. From the perspective of the Social Sciences Council, active work in the police stands in the way of a critical examination of one’s own institution. The police as an institution “comes into the public eye almost every day due to structural abuse of power, racism and right-wing extremism,” it said.

Hanover University President Volker Epping then spoke in a newspaper interview of “Cancel Culture” https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bildung/. “We find it inappropriate and abbreviated to defame our critical handling of the teaching assignment as” Cancel Culture “,” said Fachrat and Asta with. Critics would be targeted. Shortly afterwards, a disc with a cobblestone was thrown into the Asta.

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