Since Oct. 2019                     German Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago

2015 - 2019                            German Ambassador to Nicaragua

2011 till 2015                         Head of Division International Criminal Law, 

                                                    German Foreign Office, Berlin

2008 till 2011                         Director German Information Centre,

                                                   German Embassy, Pretoria

2004 till 2008                         Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy, Windhoek

2000 till 2004                         Deputy Head of Division, Personnel Management,

                                                  German Foreign Office, Berlin

1988 till 1990                         joined German Foreign Office, Bonn,

                                                  UN Human Rights Section

1988                                         Second German Law Degree

1985                                        University Degree

1979 till 1985                       Law studies in Bielefeld,

                                                 Lausanne (Switzerland) and Freiburg

1979                                        school-leaving examination