since September 2019 Chief Ombudsperson (Legal Ombudsman of the German Federal Bar), Berlin.

2020 - 2017 Guest Professorship at the Institute of Sino-German Law at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) Beijing.

2016 - 2004 Justice at the Federal Constitutional Court (First Senate).

2004 - 2000 Judge at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof).

2000 - 1993 Judge at the Frankfurt/Main Higher Regional Court.

1993 - 1992 Seconded to the Frankfurt/Main Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht).

1993 - 1986 Judge at the Darmstadt Regional Court (Landgericht).

1985 - 1983 Judge in the Regional Court district of Darmstadt

2008 Honorary Professor Leibniz University Hannover.

1998 Dr. jur. (Dresden).

1980 First State Examination in Law (Mannheim).

born in 1954