Responsibilities

Curriculum Vitae

1960-11-17
Born in Emsdetten, Westphalia

1980 - 1985
Studied law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

1988
Second state examination in law

1988 - 1990
Personal assistant in the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family Affairs, Women and Health

1990
PhD in law at the University of Münster

1990 - 1992
Worked at the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and at the Saxon State Chancellery

1992 - 1995
Head of Office for the CDU Secretary General Peter Hintze

1995 - 1999
State Councillor to the Senator of Finance of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

1999 - 2003
Secretary of State for Federal and European Affairs at the Hessian State Chancellery and Commissioner (Bevollmächtigter) of the State of Hesse to the Federation

2003 - 2008
Lawyer

June 2008 - September 2009
Chief of the State Chancellery and Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs of the Free State of Saxony

September 2009 - November 2014
Minister of the State and Chief of the State Chancellery of the Free State of Saxony

November 2014 - January 2015
Lawyer

Since January 2015
Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
 

Positions outside the central bank

• Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF e. V., Frankfurt am Main (Member of the Board of Trustees)
• Sächsischer Steuerkreis e.V., Leipzig (Member of the Expert Advisory Committee)
• Fraunhofer MOEZ, Leipzig (Member of the Board of Trustees)
• Richard Wagner Foundation, Leipzig (Member of the Board of Trustees)
• German Federal Film Board (FFA), Berlin (Member of the Administrative Council)
• Dresden International University, DIU Dresden (Member of the Curatorium)
• Radio/Tele FFH (programme committee)
• Steuben-Schurz-Gesellschaft e.V., Frankfurt am Main (President)
• Hochschule Mittweida, lecturing post; honorary professorship since 2020