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Michel Friedman was born on 25 February, 1956 in Paris, France, is an A 20th-century German Jews. Discover Michel Friedman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 25 February, 1956
Birthday 25 February
Birthplace Paris, France
Nationality France

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1956

Julien Michel Friedman (born 25 February 1956 in Paris) is a German author, former CDU politician and talk show host.

1965

In 1965, the family went to Germany and settled in Frankfurt am Main.

Friedman began studying medicine, but then switched to law.

1988

He graduated from law school in 1988 and became a doctor of law in 1994.

He has a brother living in Israel.

After qualifying as a lawyer in 1988, Friedman became a partner in an international law firm specializing in financial and media matters.

Today, he is a professor of real estate and media law.

1998

From 1998 to 2003 he had his own show on German television.

Friedman (Caution! Friedman) on the public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk'' in 1998.

2000

From 2000 to 2003 Friedman was vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and president of the European Jewish Congress from 2001 to 2003.

From 2000 until 2003, Friedman served as President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC).

Friedman's career in TV began with a talk show called ''Vorsicht!

2003

In 2003, Friedman was convicted in a case involving prostitution and drug usage.

Friedman had been accused of offering cocaine to Ukrainian prostitutes he had ordered through an escort service that was being investigated for forced prostitution.

Friedman's crime was discovered almost by chance, when police wiretaps for the investigation into forced prostitution led them to the name "Paolo Pinkel", which turned out to be Friedman's alias when using the service.

However several Jewish leaders claimed Friedman's arrest was part of an anti-Semitic witch-hunt.

Investigators raided his home and found small quantities of cocaine.

He was fined €17,400 for possession of cocaine, on 8 July 2003.

The settlement enabled him to avoid a trial.

After publicly admitting to the drug possession Friedman stated "I have made a mistake. Drugs are no help. I am resigning from all public offices that I hold."

As well as resigning from the Central Council of Jews Friedman also resigned from the Christian Democratic Party.

However, since he did not apologise to the forced prostitutes themselves (keeping silent about the nature of his "mistake"), the German women's rights organisation Terre des Femmes and others strongly criticised Friedman's speech.

2004

Since 2004 he has been hosting a weekly talk show on N24 called Studio Friedman.

Friedman is a lawyer by profession and studied law and philosophy.

Friedman was born to a Polish-Jewish family.

His parents and his grandmother were Schindlerjuden, i.e. Oskar Schindler had recruited them for slave labor, thereby rescuing them from a concentration camp.

They had been in the most infamous of all camps, the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

After the Second World War, his family opened a fur shop in Paris.

Since 2004, he has been presenting "Studio Friedman" on Germany's Welt channel.

Since July 2004 Friedmann has been married to Bärbel Schäfer, a former German TV celebrity.

They got married at Park East Synagogue.

2005

The couple has two sons, Samuel (*2005) and Oscar (*2008 – named after Oskar Schindler).

2016

When Friedman interviewed Turkish Youth and Sports Minister Akif Çağatay Kılıç in 2016 about the Turkish coup d'état attempt against the Erdoğan regime, the mass layoffs and arrests that followed the failed putsch, the media situation and the position of women in Turkey, the Turkish government confiscated the recordings.

In response, Deutsche Welle Director-General Peter Limbourg condemned Turkey for the seizure of the video tape as "a blatant violation of press freedom."

2017

His talk show Auf ein Wort premiered on Deutsche Welle in 2017.