Curriculum vitae 

• born in Berlin, Germany
  
• 1973 - 1977 Military service, two years co-commander of an artillery battery
  
• 1977 - 1982 Study of geodesy and geography at the University of Bonn
  
• 1980             Four months practical course at the Instituto Geographico Militar in La Paz, Bolivia
  
• 1983 - 1985 Vermessungsreferendar in Nordrhein-Westfalen
  
• 1985 - 1995 Software development and customer training in photogrammetry at Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany
  
• 1994             Dr.-Ing. examination in digital cartography: "Platzierung von Schrift in Karten" (automatic name placement),
                       University of Bonn
  
• 1995 - today Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Neubrandenburg
  
• 2001 - today Leading positions in standardization projects of the ISO/TC 211 "Geographic information / Geomatics"
  
• 2002 - 2003 Work at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing in Ottawa
  
• 2005 - 2008 Dean of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Geoinformatics, Geodesy, and Civil Engineering
  
• 2008 - 2009 Work at the University of Maine, USA
                      
  
  

  ---

  
   

  2009.6.22 LGGB