On 9 March 2015, the German ambassador to India, Michael Steiner, rebuked Beck-Sickinger's opinions as oversimplified and discriminative [REF].
While Leipzig University has declined to release the full text of the emails due to privacy issues,[REF] it released a statement in which it explained that the applicant had been rejected because there were no further internship openings, but had continued to converse with Beck-Sickinger by email.