2022 – May 2025

Chair of the SPD Caucus in the Lower Saxony State Parliament

Since November 2024

Member of the 26th Regional Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover

Since October 2020

Chairman of the German War Graves Commission in Lower Saxony

2017–2022

Minister of Culture of Lower Saxony

2013 to 2017

Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD State Parliamentary Group

2008 to 2017, since April 2020

Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament

2007–2017 and 2022–2025

Lawyer in Stolzenau

2011–2017

Deputy District Administrator, Nienburg District Council

2008

Membership in the German War Graves Commission

2007

State Bar Examination in the Higher Regional Court District of Celle

2006 to 2018

Honorary Mayor of the Municipality of Leese

2005 to 2007

Legal clerkship

2000 to 2003

Research Assistant at the University of Bremen

2000

State Bar Exam

1995 to 2000

Studied law at the University of Bremen (
)

1995

High School Diploma at Petershagen High School

22. 6. 1976

Born in Bad Oeynhausen (North Rhine-Westphalia), living in Leese