Member of the German Bundestag since 2021

Career
Born on 5.5.1962 in Nakskov/Denmark
Dipl. Ing. agr., study of agricultural economics at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen
Shareholder of a wholesale and retail business with organically grown wine until 1998.
Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament from 1998 to 2021.
2/2013 to 11/2017 Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection of Lower Saxony.
12/2017 to 9/2021 Chairman of the Committee for Budget and Finance in the Lower Saxony State Parliament.
Since 10/2021 Member of the German Bundestag
Since 7/2022 Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Economy and Climate Protection