I was born on the 22nd of July 1955 Wuppertal, the State of North-Rhine Westphalia, in the than West-Germany.
Immediately following my mandatory army duty I immigrated to Mexico where I lived in Mexico City. After one and a half years in Mexico Cit, Mexico, I moved on to Los Angeles, Ca. United States to select a university and studies. There I enrolled in Harvard and commenced to study law; specializing in criminal law! Soon after my Juris Doctor's exam and the passing of the bar association, I opened my own law firm and specialized in criminal defense, practicing before all courts of the United States of America.