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Gert Postel (* 18. June 1958 in Bremen) be a German Hochstapler, which above all by its repeated employment as wrong physician celebrity attain and with with its pretend, in particular psychological and psychatrischen expertise the German medical profession expose.
After completion of the hauptschule Postel locked training as the postman.
Although it had never locked a medicine study successfully, it applied under the wrong name Dr. med. Dr. phil. Clemens Bartholdy in September 1982 successfully around the place of the deputy medical officer in Flensburg.Auf the question, about what he would have attained a doctorate, answered Postel " over the Pseudologia phantastica by the literary example of the figure Felix Krull after the novel of the same name of Thomas's man " and "the cognitive induced distortions in the stereotyped judgement formation". Its superior was impressed.
By coincidence in April 1983 its true identity was determined and to Postel from the service remove-removing 1984 received Postel because of repeated falsification of documents, abusive leading of academic titles as well as the falsification of health certificates a probation sentence. In the year 1990 it succeeded to it to obtain by devious means itself a private audience with the Pope Johannes Paul II.
Further employments than physician followed, among other things in the private hospital of Professor Julius Hackethal and than medical officer with the German Federal Armed Forces.
1993 marry Postel the Historikerin Verena Epp attained a doctorate. According to own data he lived together in the 80's nearly seven years long with a north German Richterin and maintained otherwise a set from to university graduate inside.
At a brief study to theology Postel succeeded again in November 1995 a return to the medical service. Under its own name it began the place of an upper physician in the special hospital for neurology and psychiatry Zschadrass as Dr. Postel with Leipzig. Postel produced psychiatric appraisals and held lectures before the medical profession, without exciting effectively suspicion. By 10 July 1997 it was recognized coincidentally by a woman employee and submerged. At this time the date for an interview was already certain with the Saxonian Minister of State for social, health and family, Dr. Hans Geisler on the occasion of Postels Professur and appointment as the Chefarzt in the Saxonian hospital for psychiatry and neurology Arnsdorf.
Gert Postel became to 12. May 1998 in Stuttgart arrested and in the year 1999 of the regional court Leipzig because of repeated fraud and falsification of documents to a detention of 4 years condemns.
After its premature dismissal in January 2001 Gert Postel published a description of its experiences ("doctor plays ", calibration fount publishing house, Frankfurt/Main, 2001). The book became a best-seller. Its exposing the psychiatry enterprise made it a hero of the anti-psychiatry movement.
On 6 June 2002 the pool of broadcasting corporations under the title "the irresistible one radiated - the 1000 lies of the Gert Postel" (direction: Dock Christiansen) a Dokudrama out, which argued with the biography of the transformationable postman and used beside feature scenes also original cutouts from an interview with Postel.
Meanwhile in numerous publications a relatively positive tendency of the schmunzelnden acknowledgment opposite Postels prevails, fastened this NDR production also clearly more critical tones. Thereby Postels was brought up for discussion also in the interview of obviously becoming narcissus mash, its alleged desire to be able to exercise in its masquerades control of other humans. This affects an ugly side of its complex personality, that seems to step into the foreground whenever he determined persons and above all women, partially because they could not be dazzled like others from him, than its regards enemies. To the language came in this connection allegedly telephone terror exercised by Postel against a state attorney determining in its thing to let the intimidation of a female patient into Zschadrass, who analyzed its working methods transfer and which Postel was to have threatened, they with further Widerspenstigkeit into the closed department of the psychiatry as well as stated Stalking behavior of Postel opposite a whole set of women, whereby it had fallen back also to calls.
The Kieler "drawer committee" of the federal state parliament Schleswig-Holstein heard Postel 1995 as a witness, without attaining certainty over its possible role in the earlier Barschel affair. Background was become public the friendship of many years between pure Pfeiffer and Postel (Pfeiffer for a wrong statement in lieu of an oath during a process Postels against its father one condemned later).
In the final report of the Barschel committee of 1988 as one of the first tightened evidence a copy of the book had called "the adventures of the Dr. Dr. Bartholdy" - see above -, had written the Pfeiffer in the middle of the 1980er years and during a search of its dwelling was guaranteed.
Postels portion of the process of the Barschel affair remained today unsettled until. It is possible that some the Pfeiffer of attributed telephone calls at authorities and media, in which close cross-beam was denunziert went into truth on Gert Postels account: With calls several times used alias "Dr. Wagner" in the Social engineering had used experienced Hochstapler in the years before already frequently.
Beyond that it is on record that Barschel knew the alleged informant "Roloff", which he wanted to meet in Geneva obviously from earlier events in Schleswig-Holstein. The further alias "gel mountain" noted by Barschel had been used likewise already in former times by Postel/Pfeiffer. The disappointment over the alleged information of the Treffpartners - according to MIRROR it can have concerned an individual photo of Pfeiffer with Postel - would quite come as motive for a short-circuit action in situation offering no prospects into question, is however like other theories to the death of the politician only speculation.
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