Ms Schavan added that her main priority was to protect her department and the government.
BBC: German minister Annette Schavan quits over 'plagiarism'
Addressing Mrs Merkel with the words "Dear Angela, ", Ms Schavan thanked the chancellor for her friendship.
BBC: German minister Annette Schavan quits over 'plagiarism'
"At no time while working on my dissertation did I attempt to mislead, " Ms Schavan said.
German Education Minister Annette Schavan has denied that she plagiarised parts of her doctoral thesis.
Ms Schavan has told the Suedwest Presse newspaper she had no intention of resigning.
Ms Schavan said Germany would expand educational exchanges with Spain and help Madrid develop its own dual system.
Ms Schavan had been scathing in her criticism of Mr Guttenberg when the scandal of his plagiarism broke.
BBC: German minister Annette Schavan quits over 'plagiarism'
One of them, Annette Schavan, issued an angry denial on November 23rd of rumours that she was a lesbian.
The education minister toured a Daimler workshop for trainees in Esslingen, near Stuttgart, with his German counterpart Annette Schavan.
Her lawyers reportedly rejected the university's ruling and said Ms Schavan would appeal.
The university of Dusseldorf decided to look into Ms Schavan's 1980 doctoral thesis after an anonymous blogger raised questions about it.
BBC: German minister Annette Schavan quits over 'plagiarism'
"First the nation, then the party, then myself, " Ms Schavan said, citing words used by former state prime minister Erwin Teufel.
BBC: German minister Annette Schavan quits over 'plagiarism'
Media reports at the weekend said an initial evaluation of Ms Schavan's thesis found questionable passages on 60 of its 351 pages.
An initial evaluation of Ms Schavan's PhD thesis found questionable passages on 60 of its 351 pages, according to earlier media reports.
Ms Schavan has denied the claims first raised by an anonymous blogger.
The university of Dusseldorf has been looking into Ms Schavan's 1980 thesis for several months after an anonymous blogger raised questions about it.
Ms Schavan told Reuters TV that "there are great jobs and apprenticeships here", noting that young Spaniards can already look for work in Germany.
In a statement declaring the doctorate invalid and withdrawing it from Ms Schavan, the faculty head Bruno Bleckmann said they had "decided by secret ballot, by 12 votes to two, with one abstention".
BBC: German minister Annette Schavan quits over 'plagiarism'
When Ms Schavan became the second minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to be accused of copying her doctorate, in this case by an anonymous blogger, she insisted she had never "knowingly falsely cited any sources" and promised to respond to the accusations.
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