Executive Director, Bremen Cotton Exchange

1952	Born in Bremen, Germany.
1958 - 1962	Elementary school Carl-Schurz-Str. Bremen
1962 - 1972	Altes Gymnasium Bremen (classical grammar school)
May 17, 1973	Abitur (examination qualifying for university)
1973 - 1974	Service in German Army (Bundeswehr)
1975 - 1980	Study of Law at University Göttingen, Germany
Sept. 1980	State examination in Law in Oldenburg, Germany
1980 - 1983	Post-graduate judicial service
Jan. - Sept. 1982	German-Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Law Study at the University of Alberta, Edmonton
June 1983	State examination in Law in Hamburg, Germany
July 1983	Admission to the bar
August 1983 - 1986	Law partnership in Bremen
Since 1986	Executive director of the Bremen Cotton Exchange BCE is an international cotton association with about 180 members in 30 countries. Main groups are cotton merchants and spinning mills in continental Europe, mainly Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic and the Baltic states. We provide international trading rules including technical and quality arbitration. Our labratory, the Bremen Fiber Institute,offers advanced technology for cotton testing and performs international round trials for instrument calibration. We organize cotton seminars and international cotton conferences.The next one will be in March 2006.

Married to his wife Christa since 19 years. He has got three sons. Active in civic and social organisations like chamber of commerce etc. In his spare time he plays tennis or goes sailing on the North and the Baltic Sea.