1967 Graduation in Physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart

1970 Doctorate at the Technical University of Braunschweig

1970 – 1975 Scientific assistant and lecturer at the Technical University of Braunschweig

1975 – 2004 Member of Staff at the Physikalische Technischer Bundesanstalt Braunschweig, commissioned to legal metrology, computerized interferometric measurment of length, measurement uncertainties and the adjustment of physical constants