T. was born in Germany and emigrated 1954 with his parents to Australia, were the family continued to work in agriculture. T. was raised as an Australian citizen. After having studied Philosophy, German, and English at the University of Melbourne/Australia, and at the Victoria University in Wellington/ New-Zealand, he went in 1970/71 to Germany, where he was employed as a teacher on a "Werkschule". Because his Australian and New-Zealand diplomas were not acknowledged in Germany, he enrolled at the University of Stuttgart, where he completed a Doctor of Philosophy in 1977 by a thesis on Charles S. Peirce and Karl Popper. Subsequently he taught at various secondary schools and tertiary colleges in New Zealand, Germany, Rhodesia and Nigeria. Back to Australia in 1980, he got married and worked from 1983 to 1993 as the director of "Toben International Try Ltd, Import-Export".

Since 1985 he edited at least eight books on education, political science and history. Together with a friend, he established in 1994 the privately run "Adelaide Institute", of which he is the director. In 1998, this Institute organized an "International Symposium on Revisionism". During the year of 1999, T. visited different places in Europe including the site of Auschwitz, Poland, in oder to get more information on the holocaust. He published the diary of this journey in the Internet. Concluding his European journey on 9 April 1999, T. visited the German  Prosecutor Klein in Mannheim/Germany, for a private discussion, leading the inquiries in the "Günter Deckert" case, when he was arrested in the Prosecutor's office by police chief Mohr of Mannheim because of his Internet diary. After seven months, he was tried and sentenced to ten months imprisonment, but released from prison in November 1999 while awaiting his appeal. Thereafter T. delivered lectures in Iran and USA. He edited two major books on revisionism: "Where Truth Is No Defence, I Want To Break Free" (2001), and " Fight or Flight: The Personal Face of Revisionism" (2003), and many articles.

In 2002, a judge of the Federal Court of Australia found that T.'s website "vilified Jewish people", and ordered him to remove offensive material from his site. The court did not enforce an order made earlier by a commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission that he "issue a written apology to the president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry". While T. and his associates at the Adelaide Institute have occasionally denied being Holocaust deniers, in 2005 in an interview with thr Iranian state television he indicated that it was his belief that Israel is founded on the Holocaust lie. In December 2006,T. was an attendee of the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust in Iran.

On April, 16, 2009, T. had to close down his website of "Adelaide Institute" . 

Werke von / Works of T.: 
T.s works are published in the website of "Adelaide Institute", "Journal of Historical Review", "CODOH's Archive", and elsewhere. Distribution and rendering accessible of most of T.'s publications is forbidden in Austria (article 3h Verbotsgesetz 1947), Belgium (Belgian Negationism Law), the Czech Republic (under section 261), France (Loi Gayssot), Germany (§ 130-3 of the penal code), Italy ( law against racial and sexual discrimination of January 25, 2007), Lithuania, The Netherlands (under articles 137c and 137e), Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland (article 261bis of the Penal Code).

Literatur über / Writings concerning T.:
BGH - Urteil vom 12.12.2000, 1 StR 184/00, "Auschwitzlüge" im Internet

Literatur von und über Fredrick Toben im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek / Writings of and about Fredrick Toben in the catalogue of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek 
* Die Fallibilismusthese von Ch. S. Peirce und die Falsifikationsthese von K. R. Popper, Toben, Gerald Fredrick, 1977

Letzte Änderung / Last update: 02.06.2011 

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