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Conviction New Age and human-potential movements Friedrichshof, Burgenland, Austria · 1991

Otto Muehl: seven-year sentence for sexual abuse and abuse of authority within Friedrichshof

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Record class

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

commune founder and leader, ideological authority

Organization

Friedrichshof commune, Aktionsanalytische Organisation

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The cited record identifies leader authority, free-sexuality ideology, communal control, and psychological pressure as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is commune founder and leader and ideological authority.

  • Other spiritual authority or belief

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1991-11-14 · criminal judgment

    Regional Court in Eisenstadt. Muehl was convicted of sexual offenses involving minors, rape, abuse of a position of authority, drug offenses, and witness interference; he received a seven-year prison sentence.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • leader authority
  • free-sexuality ideology
  • communal control
  • psychological pressure

Cited record

Sources

parliamentary record official proceeding summary Austrian Parliament, Written Question 3719/J, XX Legislative Period (1998).

The parliamentary record describes Muehl’s November 1991 final conviction, seven-year sentence, sexual offenses involving minors, rape, and abuse of an authority relationship.

public broadcaster retrospective disposition report ORF, ‘Aktionskünstler Otto Muehl ist tot’ (May 26, 2013).

Austria’s public broadcaster records the 1991 convictions, seven-year sentence, offenses involving minors through rape, drug offenses and witness interference, and the six and a half years served.

institutional archive historical chronology Leopold Museum, ‘Otto Muehl’ exhibition chronology (2010).

The museum chronology records the commune’s cult-like hierarchy, sexual abuse of minors supported by its free-sexuality ideology, the authority-abuse conviction, and the seven-year sentence.

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https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XX/J/3719/fnameorig_121281.html Corpus classification: parliamentary-record; evidentiary role: official-proceeding-summary. SHA-256 c289245718ec40c7f8dae3ab6ed89d26cab10d26503d357c39a30ba57917181b
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https://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/23/otto-muehl Corpus classification: institutional-archive; evidentiary role: historical-chronology. SHA-256 c9764c3443cc7a50fb766dd0f41414983e1ecd74bfc1af29e68f2a33d9a9a7a3
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