About me

I am 74 years old, happily married, father of two grown children and now a (step)grandfather several times over.

I have completed several vocational training programmes and previously worked as a social education worker in various fields (self-help, community planning and work, support for vulnerable groups, youth and family support, local health reporting, and prevention/health promotion).

I also worked as a lecturer in the social management major at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, department social pedagogy. As a political scientist, I researched municipal politics in Hamburg (self-help and unemployment movements, labor market policy, health situations, poverty in old age, senior citizen health and health policy as well as youth and family welfare and youth welfare policy). I completed my work in higher education in 2019 with my doctorate with Prof. Dr. Nils C. Bandelow and Prof. Dr. Claus Schubert at the Technical University of Braunschweig.