Frederich was born on 3 May 1910 in Vienna, Austria to Alexander and Ida nee Kohn, and he had an older brother Alfred and a sister Margarethe. Both Alexander and Ida were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. Ida survived but Alexander was murdered there on 30 January 1943. Ida, Alfred and Margarethe managed to travel to Melbourne, Australia after the war ended.

Frederich escaped the Nazi regime and travelled to England. At the outbreak of war he was interned as an Enemy Alien before being released on 24 November 1939. His papers state that his occupation was a draughtsman in Austria and in 1939 he was working as an agricultural student and living at Woodhouse Grange Farm, Sutton-on-Derwent. After his release he married Stephanny Okuniewski in Howden, Yorkshire East Riding and their son Peter was born in York in 1940.

Frederich enlisted into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and was stationed at Donnington, Shropshire. Frederich died at the General Hospital, Shrewsbury and his death certificate states his cause of death was: ‘Fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain sustained when a plank fell on to his head. Accidental’.