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“I have no business being in politics anymore”

Ex-Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ruled out a comeback in politics before his first assignment as RTL presenter.

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“I have no business being in politics anymore”

Ex-Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ruled out a comeback in politics before his first assignment as RTL presenter. "I feel like I have no place in politics anymore. No, I'm not going back to politics," he said in an interview with Stern magazine.

When asked why he dared to take on the new role at RTL, where he will moderate the annual review “People, Pictures, Emotions” with Thomas Gottschalk on December 11, he said: “I may have messed up a lot, but the public one Most of the time his performance was somehow successful.” There were also elements of charlatanism, but that was something his critics didn't accuse him of. "That could have contributed to the fact that you think: You can also put him in front of the camera."

In March 2011, after successful years as a CSU politician, zu Guttenberg resigned from his political offices because of a plagiarism scandal surrounding his doctoral thesis. In his own words, he is not looking for the new big production due to the upcoming TV job. "As far as my vanity goes, I've had a very unhealthy overdose. You don't need that again."

Today, even more than then, attention is “just a balancing act between shitstorm, malice and cancel culture”. The political spectrum is a mixture of these, "enriched by wonderful smuts and intrigues," said zu Guttenberg. "So - how crazy do you have to be to wish that again?"

By the way, Zu Guttenberg says he has a doctorate again. He said that to the newspapers of the Funke media group two years ago. Accordingly, he had received his doctorate from the British University of Southampton and now holds the title PhD (Doctor of Philosophy). So far he has spoken to almost nobody about it, said zu Guttenberg of the Funke media group and added: "Because I did not do my doctorate for the public and certainly not for a political comeback, which I certainly no longer strive for, but solely for very personal reasons . That's why I don't want to say anything more about it, except that I'm very grateful to have been given this second chance."

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