Annette Schavan(57)is the second minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet to lose a doctorate after being accused of plagiarism.
Former defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned from his post in 2011 after it emerged he copied large parts of his doctoral thesis.
The head of the academic committee that voted 12 to two, with one abstention, to remove Schavan's doctorate said the decision followed a thorough review of her thesis. The plagiarism allegations were first raised last year by an anonymous blogger.
Germany's education minister has been stripped of her doctorate after a committee of academics concluded that she plagiarised substantial parts of her 1980 thesis, which dealt with the formation of conscience.
However,Schavan, who denied the allegations, plans to appeal the decision by Duesseldorf's Heinrich Heine University
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