August 9th, 1957 born in Augsburg,
1986 marriage with Regina Clasen, medical doctor for psychotherapy

School
09.01.1964 - 07.31.1968 primary school Niederrieden (Bavaria)
09.01.1968 - 07.31.1970 Gymnasium Marianum Buxheim
09.01.1970 - 06.30.1978 Bernhard Striegel – Gymnasium Memmingen,
Abitur
07.01.1978 – 06.30.1980 Serving in the army in Donauwörth
10.01.1980 - 10.20.1986 studying Russian and English in the institute for Translating and Interpreting at the university of Heidelberg
Diploma as „Academic translator for Russian.


After the university:

After 1986  working as free-lance translator and interpreter for Russian  

Ø      Being authorized to translate Russian for the High Court of the disctrict of Düsseldorf

Ø      Working free lance for deputies Helmut Lippelt, (MdB), Christa Nickels (MdB),

Ø      Amnesty International

Ø      Federal office for migration and refugees

Ø      Elisabeth Schroedter (MdEP)

Ø      fraction of the Green party in parliament

Ø       Courts in Mönchengladbach, Nettetal

Ø       Administrative court Gelsenkirchen

Ø       Firma Aquadreams (www.aquadreams.net)

Ø      TÜV Mönchengladbach

Ø      Bavarian Administrative Court

Ø      WDR

Ø       Dokuments for customers .

Since 1993 working several times as expert for the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, members of parliament Elisabeth Schroedter, Helmut Lippelt.
1994: Organizing an international conference on nuclear power in Kiev (Ukraine) for the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. Every year several visits to Armenia and Azerbaijan. Since 1998 I am in charge of the project "Humanitarian mediation in the Karabakh conflict", seven years sponsered by the German ministry of foreign affairs with about 80,000 Euro / year.


My political CV


I started my political activities as a young student in 1975, when I joined the conservative youth organization of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party. For two years I was editor-in-chief of the school magazine „Konzepte“ in Memmingen at the Bernhard-Strigel Gymnasium (www.strigel.de).
From 1978 – 1980 I was drafted and served with the Bundeswehr (West German army) in Donauwörth.
It was the Falkland war from 1982 and the activities and publications of the US peace activists Daniel and Phil Berrigan that influenced my view of the armed services: I decided to become a peace movement activist.
In 1983 I took part in the blockade of the US-American facilities in Mutlangen, Wuerrtemberg, where the Pershing II missile were to be stationed. For this action I was sentenced to a fine of 20 daily rates. I refused to pay and so I was put into prison for 20 days.

A few days before serving my time of 20 days I took part in a peace action on Alexanderplatz, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic. Together with 5 activists from the West German peace movement, which had all received sentences for the Mutlangen blockade, I demonstrated in East Berlin against the SED authorities and for the admission of an independent peace movement in the GDR. All of us were arrested on the spot. After eight hours of interrogation our group was released and taken to West-Berlin. See: Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 30.3.1985 and our Leaflet.
In the early eighties I joined the Green Party.
In 1991 George Bush senior went to war against Irak. Together with other peace activists from Mönchengladbach I founded the local peace group “No blood for oil”.
In the 1990ies I became more active in the Green party.
I served as:

-         Delegate at party congresses

-         Board member of the Mönchengladbach Greens (5 years)

-         Candidate of the Mönchengladbach Greens for the parliament of North Rhine Westfalia (1995)

-         Member of the working group East-West (Berlin)

As member of the Green Party I worked with Elisabeth Schroedter (MP), Christa Nickels (MP), Helmut Lippelt (MP) and with the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation.

When the Green Party supported the bombing of Belgrade and other cities in Yugoslavia, I left the party in protest.

After 1999 I started again to focus on peace and human rights activities.

I organized several „Peace Forum Mönchengladbach“ demonstrations against the wars in Yugoslavia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Irak (2003) and Chechnya.

I cooperated primarily with the human rights center "Memorial" (Moscow)
and the working group "Russia" of Amnesty International (Berlin).
Since 1995 I have been in charge of the project „POWS, Missing persons and hostages of the Karabakh-conflict“. This project has been supported by the Heinrich-Böll Foundation, the German Ministry of Foreign affairs and Caritas France.

See auch: www.agkk.org
Ecology

My activities are focused on nuclear policy and human rights. I cooperate with Natalja Mironowa (Tscheljabinsk) and Grigorij Pasko (Wladiwostok, Moscow).

Publications I published scores of articles on issues related to the CIS in „Publik-Forum”, Friedensforum, taz, Neues Deutschland etc.

In the German federal elections of 2005 I was nominated as candidate for Mönchengladbach's WASG and Linkspartei ("The Left Party").

I am active in the following working groups of WASG/Left Party:
Working Group Ecology of WASG NRW,
Working Group Europe of WASG NRW,
Working Group Eastern Europe of WASG NRW,
Working Group Europe of the Left Party.


                             Membership in following organizations:

International Working Group for the Tracing of missing persons of the Karabakh conflict (Co-chair)