Born 14 July 1947 in Hamburg
Professional Career
December 2011Elected as Judge of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT)
Since 18 November 2008Permanent Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
2001 - 2007Secretary of State at the Senate Justice Department of Berlin
1989 - 2001Head of the Prison Administration in the Senate Justice Department of Berlin
1983 - 1989Criminal Judge at the Country Court and the Criminal District Court of Berlin
1978 - 1983Head of Division in the Prison department of the Senate Justice Department in Berlin
1977 - 1978Public Prosecutor in Berlin
1976Personal Assistant of the Senator for Interior in Berlin
1976Second State Examination in Berlin
1973 - 1976Junior lawyer in Berlin
1973First State Examination in Berlin
1969 - 1971Assistant of a member of the German Parliament (Bundestag) in Bonn
1967 - 1973Study of law at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Bonn
Membership of professional bodies
1996 - 2007Member of the Steering Committee of the Council of Europe for the Reform of the Ukrainian Prison System
2002 - 2004 and 2006 - 2008Member of the board of curators of the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation
2001 - 2007Member of the Council of the Foundation for the Memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen (former central pre-trial prison of the Secret Service of DDR - Stasi)
2001 - 2007Member of the Board of Curators of the Berlin University of Supplied Sciences for Administration and Justice
1989 - 2001Member of the Penitentiary Commission of the German Bundesländer
Since 1989Member of the German League of Prison Governors
Related activities
- Expert of the Council of Europe (seminars with the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court of Ukraine and with the Prison Administration of Lithuania)
- Expert of the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (seminars with Russian Pardon Commissions, Estonian Chancellor of Law, Ukrainian Ministry of Justice and National Administration for Penitentiaries of Romania)
Publications
Editor and author of books and various other publications about transition of the penitentiary system of the former DDR, organisational reform and enhancement of the treatment standards in the prison system of Germany, reform of the judiciary in Middle and Eastern Europe, International Criminal Law