The education minister herself, Stark-Watzinger, supposedly knew nothing about these efforts until they were critized by the media and university officials from across Germany

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A top education ministry official has been fired after over a botched response to a dispute about academic freedom and the right to protest.

Döring admitted that she “had apparently expressed herself in a misleading manner when commissioning the legal review,” Stark-Watzinger said.

“Nonetheless, the impression was created that the Education Ministry was considering examining the consequences under funding law on the basis of an open letter covered by freedom of expression,” the minister added.

Some 150 pro-Palestinian activist students, protesting Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip, occupied a courtyard at Berlin’s Free University in early May.

In their statement, the lecturers urged “university management to refrain from police operations against their own students as well as from further criminal prosecution.”

At the time, Stark-Watzinger criticized the academics’ letter for not mentioning the October 7 attacks by Palestinian extremist group Hamas and other militants in southern Israel.

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