about me

February 4, 1947: Born in Malente, Schleswig-Holstein, in the North of Germany
04/1953 – 04/1957: Primary school in Malente
04/1957 – 02/1966: Secondary school Johann-Heinrich-Voss in Eutin, graduated with university-entrance diploma (Abitur) in 1966.
04/1966 – 11/1972: Student of Mathematics and Astronomy at Universities of Hamburg (1966-1969), Paris-Orsay (1969-1970) and Bonn (1970-1972) – graduated with degree dissertation (Diplom) in Mathematics on Differential Forms in the Thom class
12/1972 – 06/1975: Postgraduate studies in Number Theory, Automorphic Forms, Representation Theory
07/1975 – 04/1978: Scientific Employee at the Collaborative Research Center for Theoretical Mathematics (Sonderforschungsbereich 40) in Bonn – a precursor of the MPIM.
04/1979: Ph.D. from Science Faculty of Bonn University with thesis in Mathematics on Cohomology of arithmetic groups
04/1978 – 04/1980: Scientific Assistent at the Mathematical Faculty of the University of Bielefeld
05/1980 – 03/1984: Consultant at software company in Wiesbaden (Polydata, the German part of this company vanished from the market in 2006).
04/1984 – 11/2005: Consultant and Manager at IBM Germany
12/2005 – now: retired and busy with detecting what I want to learn and know, like doing mathematics, visiting the Berlin planetarium, attending astronomical workshops or lectures at the universities, reading books, watching movies, in particular at the international film festival Berlinale, traveling to somewhere, seeing friends, hearing concerts in the philharmony, go swimming, go biking along the Teltow channel, practicing Qi-Gong and Taiji, and since 2007 sailing on Berlin rivers.