In a statement declaring the doctorate invalid and withdrawing it from Ms Schavan, the facultyhead Bruno Bleckmann said they had "decided by secret ballot, by 12 votes to two, with one abstention".
Henry DeVries, the former head of an Ad Age 500 agency, is on the marketing faculty and is the assistant dean of continuing education at the University of California San Diego.
They pressed a gun to her head, shoved her out of the car, and drove it to the Faculty of Engineering, where they shot three boys who were coming out of the building.