Michael Osterheider

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Michael Osterheider (born February 3, 1956 in Düsseldorf ) is a German psychiatrist and is an expert in the field of pediatric crime . He is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Regensburg .

Life

Michael Osterheider completed his school education in 1974 with the Abitur at the Städtischen Rethel-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf. He then did basic military service and began studying medicine in 1975, which took him to the universities of Düsseldorf , Cologne and Essen . He received his license to practice medicine in Essen in May 1982.

At the same time, Osterheider studied literature at the University of Essen from 1976 to 1979. In 1986 Osterheider received his doctorate on the subject of "Interference phenomenon and topographical EEG factors" and completed his training as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy . From May 1987 to December 1994 he worked as a senior physician and research assistant at the Würzburg University Psychiatric Clinic with Helmut Beckmann .

From January 1995 to December 1997, Osterheider was Medical Director of the Westphalian Center for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Paderborn , which is also an academic teaching hospital of the University of Münster . In January 1998 Osterheider became head of the Westphalian Center for Forensic Psychiatry (WZFP) in Lippstadt-Eickelborn . In May 2004 he was appointed professor (C3) for forensic psychiatry at the University of Regensburg.

In 2010 he took part as an expert at the round table on child abuse in Berlin (in working group III "Research and Teaching"). Osterheider is critical of celibacy in this context.

After contradicting statements in the Höxter criminal case , Osterheider was replaced as an expert because of “grossly sloppy work”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. CV at the University of Regensburg
  2. - ( Memento from December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Indirectly, celibacy certainly attracts men with sexual inclinations towards children
  4. appraiser under pressure: Court keeps torture murder process of failure