Gert Postel

Gert Postel ( born June 18, 1958 in Bremen ) is a German impostor who became known for his multiple employments as false physician awareness.

Biography

Postel attended elementary school and graduated from a training for postman. He indicates that his mother died of an incorrect treatment for depression and that he was himself for a short time in the adolescent psychiatry. It was later the intention arisen to expose psychiatry as "hot air" and expose.

Scammers career

Medical officer in Flensburg

Although he had never completed a medical degree, Postel competed under the name MD, Ph.D.. Clemens Bartholdy in September 1982 for the post of deputy medical officer in Flensburg and was discontinued. When asked what his qualifications are, Postel said, "On the Pseudologia phantastica the literary example of the figure of Felix Krull on the novel by Thomas Mann and the cognitive distortions induced in the stereotypical judgment ."

By chance - he lost a purse with two cards that were issued in different name - was found his true identity in April 1983 and Postel removed from service. In 1984, he received a suspended sentence for multiple forgery, abuse of academic titles as well as guiding the falsification of health certificates. More jobs as a doctor followed, including in the private clinic of Julius Hackethal and as a staff physician in the army.

Postel succeeded, after he had enrolled in Munster for a study of Catholic theology to be received through the intercession of the bishop of Münster on May 1, 1991 by Pope John Paul II in Rome in a private audience.

Chief Medical Officer in the forensic

After a brief study of theology Postel succeeded in November 1995, again a return to the medical service. Under his own name he appeared as Dr. Postel to the post of Chief Medical Officer in the Hospital for Psychiatry Zschadraß near Leipzig. Postel verfertigte psychiatric reports and gave presentations before doctors without attracting suspicion. On 10 July 1997 he was accidentally detected by a staff member and went into hiding.

Imprisonment

Postel was arrested on 12 May 1998 in Stuttgart and sentenced in 1999 by the Landgericht Leipzig for multiple fraud and forgery to a prison term of four years.

After his early release in January 2001 Postel published a description of his experiences ( Doctor games). The presentation described as exposure of Psychiatry operation was applause from the anti-psychiatry movement.

Docu-drama " The Irresistible "

On 6 June 2002, the ARD shone under the title The Irresistible - The 1000 Lies of Gert Postel directed by Kai Christiansen, a docu- drama, which dealt with the biography of the versatile postman and this next game movie scenes and original excerpts from an interview with Postel used.

While in numerous publications prevails a tendency smirking appreciation to Postel's Köpenickiaden suggested this NDR production also more critical tones. Postel's main themes were doing well in the interview to be recognized narcissism and his desire to exercise control over other people in his masquerades. For language came exercised telephone terror against an investigating in his cause prosecutor and the intimidation of a patient in Zschadraß who questioned his methods of treatment and have the Postel threatened to have them transfer at another rebellion in the closed department of psychiatry in this context by Postel.

Barschel affair

The "drawer- Committee " of the Landtag of Schleswig -Holstein heard Postel 1995 as a witness without obtaining certainty about its possible role in the earlier Barschel affair. Background was the public have become long-standing friendship between Reiner and Pfeiffer Postel. Pfeiffer was later sentenced to a sworn false statement in a process Postel against his father.

In the final report of the Barschel Committee from 1988 is called The Adventures of Dr. Bartholdy one of the first had moved evidence a copy of the book. Under this name Postel was employed in Flensburg as a doctor. The mid-1980s authored book Pfeiffer was found at a search of his apartment.

Postel's share of the Barschel affair is still unclear. It is possible that some of Pfeiffer ascribed phone calls to authorities and media in which Björn Engholm was denounced, in fact, went on Postel's account. The pseudonym " Dr. multiply used for calls Wagner " had previously been used frequently experienced in social engineering imposters over the years.

In addition, is on record that the in the so-called mysterious notes listed by Barschel shortly before his death more pseudonym " Gelsenberg " had already been used earlier by Pfeiffer. The disappointment over the alleged information Treff Partners - according to Spiegel, it may well have been a single photo of Pfeiffer with Postel - came as a motive for a short cut in a hopeless situation quite in question, however, as other theories to the death of the politician, only speculation.

Writings

• Doctor games. Confessions of a conman. Eichborn, 2001; Goldmann, 2003, ISBN 3-442-15247- X.