http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/top-german-geoscientist-fired-after-police-raid-faces-allegations-financial-crimes > Reinhard Hüttl was dismissed last month by the German Research Centre for Geosciences. > Reinhard Hüttl had risen to the very top of German science. The soil scientist was head of the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), where he commanded a staff of more than 1200 and a €95 million budget. He was vice president of acatech, Germany’s engineering-focused national academy, and vice president of the nation’s most prestigious state academy, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). His advice even reached Chancellor Angela Merkel—for example as a government adviser with the Council on Bioeconomy.