Ordinary Member of the Defense Committee and its Task Force Afghanistan; Substitute Member of the Committee for Transport, Building and Urban Affairs

1967-1981 Elementary and grammar school in Itzehoe

since 1979 Member of the German Social Democrats (SPD)

1980-1985 Member of Young Socialists Schleswig-Holstein

1986-1988 State Executive Committee, Vice-Chairman

1980-1992 Studies of Evangelical Theology, German Philology and Medical History at Kiel and Berlin universities

1985-1987 Office manager SPD political group at the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament, Björn Engholm's office

1988-1993 Personal Assistant and Vice Office Director to Schleswig-Holstein State Premier Björn Engholm

1993/1994 Assistant at the Institute of Systematic Theology in Kiel, two years as a curate in Hamburg Bahrenfeld

1994 Examination, Ordination, Pastor of Northelbian Evangelical Lutheran Church

1995 PR Manager of the German Protestant Kirchentag in Hamburg, Pastor in Hamburg Barmbek

1997 Senior Political Adviser to the opposition leader at the German Bundestag,

Rudolf Scharping

1998-2002 Personal assistant and Office Director to the Minister of Defense, Rudolf Scharping

2002-2005 Professor and Director of the Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences

Member of SPD Schleswig Holstein State Executive Committee

Vice-Chairman of the Group of German-Japanese Parlamentarians

Member of the German Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

SPD Parliamentary Group Commissioner for Cults and Psychogroups