as of August 2021

German Ambassador to Saudi-Arabia

2017   -  2021

Consul General to the Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR

2015   -  2017

Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

January - July 2015

Consul General to Erbil/Iraq

2012 - 2014

Chief of Protocol, Federal State of Berlin, Head of Foreign Affairs

2011 - 2012

Head of State Secretaries’ Office, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

2009 - 2011

Head of Personnel Development and Planning, Higher Service Division, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

2008 - 2009

Head of Human Rights, International Human Rights Protection; EU Human Rights Policy Division, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

2004 - 2008

Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy in Lima/Peru

2001 - 2004

Deputy Head of Personnel – General Division, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

1998 - 2001

Desk officer for policy (Security Council, Asia), Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, New York

1995 - 1998

Desk officer for press relations, German Embassy in Jakarta/Indonesia

1992 - 1995

Personnel Division, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

1989 - 1992

Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy in Kigali/Rwanda

1988 - 1989

Desk officer for human rights, Federal Foreign Office, Bonn

1987 - 1988

Foreign service training, Federal Foreign Office, Bonn

1984 - 1987

Practical legal training in Bavaria, second level of state law examinations

1978 - 1983

Law studies in Regensburg/Germany