Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) said in his speech as laudator that Schwarzenegger more than deserved the honorary doctorate. He praised the 77-year-old as an exceptional person and politician and called him a role model for all of humanity.
Schwarzenegger is a personality with character and stands for decency and the ability to compromise. As a politician, he was guided by what was right and necessary, not by ideological guidelines, for example in his commitment to renewable energies as Governor of the US state of California.
Schwarzenegger thanked the packed auditorium of the university in Berlin-Mitte for the honorary doctorate. He emphasized that what makes him happiest is not having been a successful bodybuilder and Hollywood star or having earned millions, but being able to give something back to others. "The earth is like a body: the more you train and care for it, the better it will be," said the former Republican governor of California, who has been campaigning for bipartisan measures for more climate protection and sustainability for years." (www.tagesschau.de)
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