Overview
- Schulministerin Dorothee Feller told a Landtag committee that all five Bezirksregierungen reported no similar occurrences.
- The Duisburg teacher has been on certified sick leave since 2009 with full pay and was not referred to an Amtsarzt until this year.
- The breakdown was discovered only after the long-time caseworker at the Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf retired in early 2025.
- The authority had rebooked the teacher to a school-supervision account to allow the school to refill the position.
- The teacher contested the ordered medical examination but lost in two court instances.