Since 2011: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (“FHH”), State Secretary at the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Transportation and Innovation (until June 2020 Department of Transportation, since June 2020 Department of Economic Affairs)
2007 – 2011: Hanseatic City of Stade, Mayor
2000 – 2007: City of Aurich, Member of the City Council (Economy and Finance) (2000 – 2006) and Chairman of the City Council (2006 – 2007)
1996 – 2000: Consultant, later Head of Department in the joint regional planning Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein and coordinator for the regional development concept in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region
1991 – 1995: FHH, Ministry for Urban Development, member of the founding staff and personal advisor of the Senator for Urban Development (1991 – 1993), Head of the Department for Presidential and Parliamentary Affairs (1993 – 1995)
1988 – 1991: Scientific assistant for several members of the Hamburg City Parliament (1988 – 1989) and for the Social Democratic Party Hamburg (1989 – 1991)
Education
Degree (Magister Artium) in History, Political Sciences, Social and Economic History at the University of Hamburg, 1979 – 1986
Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards of German companies
FHG Flughafen Hamburg GmbH Group, Hamburg¹
Memberships in comparable domestic or foreign controlling bodies of business enterprises