Diploma Fake – Wrong Teacher known: “Want back to school”

“Krone”: Mr. Mayrhofer, you force your last diploma and determined that you are a teacher. Why?
Christian Mayrhofer: I slid in one way or another. It started with an old love. I was in love with a teacher and pretended to be a teacher, just like her. I was at least in a certain way. I gave foreigners at the BFI in Linz (Professional Development Institute, note).

You do not need a diploma from the Pädak. To teach in a high school, very good. Did your girlfriend know you didn’t have a diploma?
Nobody knew it. It was uncomfortable for me. Everyone thought I had completed my training. I was attracted to the University of Education in Linz and later wanted to teach German and sport. In the sport I only missed the diploma exam and in German a block event and the diploma exam. However, there was a misunderstanding when crediting the block event. I should have added a semester. That annoyed me so much that I threw everything. That was a big mistake. At that time I went abroad for five years, worked in tourism and then had some jobs.

Until they finally became teachers in high school.
The primary school, in which my girlfriend taught at the time, was in the same building as the high school in which I had to teach later. She once took me there and introduced me to her colleague. I was surprised to get a vacancy so quickly. I hesitated in the beginning, but finally I moved to her to Vienna and accepted the job in the MS. I had a guilty conscience for a long time, but I didn’t regret it. I am a teacher with body and soul.

How did the dizziness fly up?
I had left my wallet on the roof of my car. She fell to the police while driving and the Finder. The police investigated investigation and discovered that my diploma was fake.

There were only research because they had a fake police ID in the wallet.
That was not a real id. He was many years old, friends and I once tinkered with Mardi Gras. You immediately saw on the basis of the glue that it is a nice article. But the police didn’t think it was so funny and started the investigation.

What was it like for you to come across?
Terrible. A disaster. People looked at me as a murderer. It started early when I brought my daughter to kindergarten. People who usually look at me for two seconds and greet me quickly. The walk with the dog was difficult. I hid under my hood or wore with a reduced main hairdresser. Usually I only left the house at night or early in the morning.

Have friends and family “forgive” you?
I was touched how everyone stood with me. No nobody really knew that my diploma scammed. Not even my mother. They were all there for me and encouraged me. They knew I was going through hell. Students and parents wrote and hoped too, I would come back. Some colleagues even gathered signatures and the director also stopped me, but I still had to go.

What is the following? Are you doing the diploma?
It’s hard to say. I would probably have to tackle all training. In any case, I want to become a teacher again and my class back. I was a member of a third party. So I will apply again at high school in Steyr in Upper Austria, where I taught until shortly before Christmas. My class is waiting for me. I have always campaigned for my students and I know that I am a really good teacher. Maybe better than someone with a diploma. What my students and I have achieved is strong.

Such as for example?
We were twice in the Football League final on an MS in Vienna during an MS in Vienna, in table tennis we became fifth in the federal final. We were in the final at the Big Football “Krone” Indoor Cup. I could motivate my students to perform. I have shown them why sport is so important so that you stay healthy. And in German I taught them why they stay on the ball and read a lot. I hope I can go back.

Interview: Silvia Jelincic