Biography

born on 15 December 1962 in Waldbröl, Oberbergischer Kreis, North-Rhine Westphalia

Academic background

1982
School-leaving certificate (Abitur) in Lüdenscheid, followed by military service in Essen and Husum

1984
Degree in Law at the University of Trier

1989
Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz

Career history

1992
Judge at the Trier Administrative Court

1994
Secondment to the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice in Mainz, Head of the Press and Public Relations Office of the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice in Mainz

2001
Head of the Legal Department and, as of 2006, Deputy Director for Federal Affairs at the Representation of Rhineland-Palatinate to the Federal Government and the European Union in Berlin

2009
Head of the Representation of Lower Saxony to the Federal Government in Berlin (until March 2010)

2010
From March Director for “Information society, media” and later on Director for “Budget, staff, organization and information technology (CIO)” at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

2011
01/01/2011 – 31/05/2011: Director for Budget, Staff, Organization and Information Technology (CIO) and IT Commissioner at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

2011
Director-General for Political Staff and Policy Planning at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

2013
Director-General for IT, Communication and Postal Policies at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

2014
Director for Crafts, Commercial Law and Business Promotion, Education Policy, Liberal Professions at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

2015
Director-General for Digital and Innovation Policy at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

since 2021
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport