- Graduate of the Architecture Department of the TU Hannover
- 1980 – 1984: Chief Planning Officer and Councilor for Building and Construction in Lennestadt
- 1985 – 1989: Technical Assistant of the City of Wesel
- 1990 – 1997: Department Head of Urban Development of the Regional Capital of Wiesbaden
- 1998 – 2001: Acting Partner in the DKS Office – Urban Planning (Dilger, Kramm & Strigl) Darmstadt/Wiesbaden
- 1998 – 2004: Member of the Steering Committee and Chairperson of the Hessian National Committee, Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland, of the German Academy for Urban Development and Land Use Planning and of the Committee for City Development
- since 2002: Manager of Nassauische Heimstätte Wohnungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, Frankfurt am Main and
- since 2005: Auxiliary Manager of Wohnstadt Stadtentwicklungs- und Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Hessen mbH, Kassel
- September 2006: Honorary professor