Since 2025
State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transport and Building
2020 until 2025
State Secretary at the Ministry of Federal and European Affairs and Regional Development of Lower Saxony

2014 until 2020
State Commissioner for Regional State Development Braunschweig

2011 to 2014
District Administrator of the district of Helmstedt

2006 to 2011
Mayor of the town of Schöningen
1989 to 1997
Studied educational science at the TU Braunschweig
and the University of Hanover

1987 to 2006
Employed at the Neuerkerode Protestant Foundation, initially as
as a community service assistant, curative education nurse, management
assistant and employee as well as head of department,
Member of the Executive Board from December 2001

1984 to 1987
Training as a curative education nurse

1981 to 1984
Care assistant for training as a curative education nurse

1 July 1963
Born in Esbeck