Max Friedrich

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Max Hermann Friedrich (born April 26, 1945 in Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian child and youth psychiatrist . From 1995 to 2013 he was head of the University Clinic for Neuropsychiatry of Children and Adolescents at the Vienna General Hospital .

Life

Max Friedrich put 1964 in Gänserndorf the Matura down, in 1971, he completed his medical studies. Since 1977 he has been a specialist in psychiatry and neurology, and since 1980 in child and adolescent neuropsychiatry. In 1983 he became a full professor at the University of Vienna . In 1984, Max Friedrich was appointed permanent court sworn expert for psychiatry as well as child and neuropsychiatry. He was an advisor to various federal ministries on sect , family and abuse issues and a member of national and international bodies.

In addition to numerous specialist publications, Friedrich published books such as Tatort Kinderseele , Accompanying Children into Life and The Victims of the Wars of the Roses . Among other things, he deals with topics such as violence at school , the role of peer groups among young people and homosexuality in adolescence.

On November 10, 1994, together with Giora Seeliger, he founded Rote Nasen Clowndoctors in Austria , the association to promote the joy of life of sick or suffering children. He is the founder and head of the Die Buje outpatient clinic for young people who have mental problems. He was part of the psychosocial team that has been taking care of the Austrian Natascha Kampusch , who was kidnapped in 1998 and released in 2006, since her escape.

For 23 years he was head of the University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Vienna General Hospital. He has been retired since October 2013, but continues to ordain in his own practice.

He is married to the coroner Elisabeth Friedrich-Schöler and has four children. He lives in Vienna and has a second home in Bad Fischau-Brunn .

criticism

Since 2008, Friedrich, who often works as a court expert, has been criticized for allegedly inadequate or false reports: On the basis of an expert report by Friedrich, a Carinthian father and step-grandfather were convicted of sexual abuse of his (grand) daughter and were imprisoned for 22 months and one year respectively, before they were acquitted in a retrial. The FPÖ's spokesman at the time , Peter Fichtenbauer , called for Friedrich to be removed from the list of experts at a press conference and accused him of having drawn up “masses of false reports”. Friedrich firmly denied these accusations.

In another case of sexual abuse of a minor, a court followed Friedrich's statement, “The expert opinion approach of the experts Dr. R. is therefore not in accordance with the Austrian forensic tradition [...] ”, rejected the credibility report of the experts and rejected the convicted person's request for retrial. The Linz Higher Regional Court overturned the decision: “Contrary to the 'Austrian forensic tradition' described by the first court, there cannot be the slightest doubt that the current state of scientific knowledge also applies in Austria. With regard to the methodology and the content of the credibility assessment, in particular the assessment of children after sexual abuse, the basic scientific principles developed in the Federal Republic of Germany on the occasion of the ' Worms Trials ' are therefore also valid for the Austrian criminal process. " Acquitted months later.

Awards

  • 2006 Professor-Dr.-Julius-Tandler-Medal of the City of Vienna in silver

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of court experts, Univ.Prof. Dr. Max H. Friedrich. Federal Ministry of Justice , accessed on December 23, 2015 : "Objective restriction not for: Credibility reports"
  2. ↑ Central register of associations. (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of the Interior , archived from the original on December 20, 2015 ; accessed on December 23, 2015 (ZVR number 599371232). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zvr.bmi.gv.at
  3. ↑ Medical University of Vienna - Annual Report 2013 (PDF, 2.2MB, page 82). (PDF) Retrieved February 18, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ www.docfinder.at: Univ.Prof. Dr. Max Hermann Friedrich. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Medical University of Vienna - Annual Report 2013 (PDF, 2.2MB, page 82). (PDF) Retrieved February 18, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ A life for the children . In: Criminal Police . tape 2006 , no. 8 ( online [accessed June 20, 2018]).
  7. ^ ORF Landesstudio Niederösterreich - close-up of Nadja Mader in conversation with Prof. Max Friedrich . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed June 20, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Miscarriage of Justice: Psychiatrist sees no guilt. ORF , September 13, 2010, accessed on December 23, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Manfred Seeh: Psychiatrist Friedrich: How good are his reports? Die Presse , September 8, 2008, accessed December 23, 2015 .
  10. ↑ FPÖ locates legal scandal and demands consequences. Kronen Zeitung , September 11, 2008, accessed January 6, 2009 .
  11. ↑ Irene Brickner : Max Friedrich: Carinthian expertise was "thorough". Der Standard , September 11, 2008, accessed December 23, 2015 .
  12. ↑ OLG Linz 10 Bs 30 / 06t of January 26, 2007
  13. ^ Teacher acquitted after seven years. DerStandard.at , August 10, 2010, accessed on December 23, 2015 .
  14. ↑ 11 Os 66 / 10f. OGH , July 21, 2010, accessed December 23, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich, Max Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian child and youth psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterneuburg