Born in 1956. Munich (Bavaria). Journalist. Adviser at EP. Founder and former federal Chairman of Paneuropean Youth Germany. Vice-President and Executive Vice-President of the Paneuropean Union Germany, President since 1998. Bureau member of the International Paneuropean Union. Regional Chairman of the CSU Union of expellees (UdV). 2000-2008 Federal Chairman of the Sudeten German League, since 2008 spokesman (topmost political representative worldwide) of the Sudeten German ethnic group. MEP since 1994.