Who am I?

Career stages:

1974-1980
Frankfurt University, Free University of Berlin: Studies in Sociology, Economics, Philosophy

1980-1982
Research-Assistant and Junior Lecturer Goethe University, Frankfurt

1983-1984
Researcher University of Osnabrück

1985-1987
Research Fellow at Philipps-University Marburg

1988-1994
Delegate for Employment-Policy, City of Offenbach

1995-2020
Head of Department for Employment, Statistics, Social Development, and Integration-Policies, City Council Offenbach am Main

1998 - ongoing
European Liaison Officer, City of Offenbach

2005-2011
Managing Director of MainArbeit GmbH

2012-2020
Managing Director of MainArbeit. Kommunales Jobcenter Offenbach, a social and employment service organisation, subsidiary of the municipality of Offenbach am Main (follow-up organisation of MainArbeit GmbH).

2021 - ...  Lecturer at Hochschule Fulda (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)

2021 - ....  Senior Advisor and Project-Manager for the City of Offenbach and MainArbeit-Jobcenter

2021 - ....  Free-Lancing Consultant to governmental and non-governmental organisations in the field of social policies, employment,
                  and urban development
 

Other Activities:

Chair of Bundesnetzwerk Jobcenter, a nation-wide network of Job-Center-Directors in Germany (covering 350 Job-Centers serving appr. 6 million clients under the job-seekers assistance scheme SGB II) 

Member of the Committee "Social Policy, Social Protection, Social Assistance“ within the German Association for Public and Private Welfare (Deutscher Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge e. V., Berlin)

Member of the Advisory Board of Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGBZ, Research Institute for Societal Cohesion), Frankfurt / Leipzig / Bremen 

Member of the Advisory Board for inclusive urban development of the federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction

Member of the Board of "Freunde des Ensemble Modern" (Friends of Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based, internationally renowned ensemble of modern an avantgarde music)