"President of the Federal Association" in court - fine for forgery of documents: "Trapped in a surreal world"

Created: 12/28/2021, 06:04 AM

A young man had to answer for falsification of documents before the Wolfratshausen district court © Uli Deck / dpa

He wanted to look better in front of family and friends: That's why a Wolfratshauser founded fictional associations and wrote letters to organizations.

That has consequences.

Wolfratshausen - He wanted to look better in front of his family and friends.

A Wolfratshauser (23) justified in court why he had sent numerous letters, mostly signed by invented people, to ministries, associations and organizations in the Federal Republic in the name of a fictitious federal association.

Now the young man had to answer 30 cases for forgery of documents.

In 15 letters there was also misuse of titles and job titles because he had also given the signatories the title of doctor or professor, and twice a “Amtsratin” was among the letters as the sender.

"President of the Federal Association" in court - fine for forgery of documents: "Trapped in a surreal world"

“That's right,” admitted the defendant. "It was for personal reasons," he continued. He felt the need to "look bigger". In order to be able to give an adequate answer to the family circle to the question “What will become of you now?” And to be able to show something, he and friends founded the “Federal Association”, with whose letterhead he maintained a lively correspondence. Regardless of whether it was about an electricity bill, cooperation with other organizations such as the offer for a partnership with a third world center or complaints about the corona policy at the Federal Ministry. "At some point I was trapped in a surreal world," said the accused. “I really thought these people existed.” Until officers from the State Criminal Police Office stood in front of his door and he abruptly hit the real world again.The fact that he was already in psychiatric treatment helped him to reflect on his behavior.

Wolfratshausen District Court pronounces a verdict: forging documents is expensive for young men

In addition to his "therapy events" - because of which she did not want to rule out a reduced culpability - the prosecutor assessed in favor of the accused that he did not want to harm anyone.

"He had no financial interests, just an urge to be valid," said the prosecutor, who applied for a fine of 180 daily rates of 50 euros (totaling 9,000 euros).

Judge Helmut Berger stayed a little below with 150 daily rates (total 7500 euros).

The fact that the employee with his confession "spared the court extremely extensive investigations" has the effect of mitigating the penalty.

The defendant accepted the verdict.