Studies: Apprenticeship as an assistant for market and opinion research, Institute for Demoscopy Allensbach; Studied Economics, Johannes Gutenberg- University Mainz.
Degrees: PhD, Institute for Statistics and Econometrics, Johannes Gutenberg- University Mainz.
Current Position: President of the Department Population, Finance and Taxes of the Federal Statistical Office Germany.
Past Positions: Employee at the Federal Statistical Office, since 1990; Head of the group "Current Population Statistics, Regional Structuring" (responsibility for the expansion of the area of operations "Population Forecasts"; establishment of full reporting by official statistics on migration and integration), 2002-2005; Head of the group "Prices", 2005-2006 (responsibility for communicating inflation measurement); Director of the Research Data Center of the Federal Statistical Office; Head of division at the Institute for Research and Development of Federal Statistics (responsibility for basic questions of cooperation between official statistics science).
