Short vita
- Editor of the tobacco law in the commentary "Zipfel / Rathke Lebensmittelrecht"
- Publisher of the food law text collection Klein-Rabe-Weiss
- Member of the editorial advisory board of the "Zeitschrift für das gesamte Lebensmittelrecht" (ZLR)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the German Food Association (Lebensmittelverband Deutschland e. V.)
- Member of the Research Center for European and German Food and Feed Law at the Philipps University of Marburg
- Attorney at ZENK since 2013
- For many years Managing Director of the BLL (now Lebensmittelverband Deutschland e. V.) and the Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Ernährungsindustrie e.V. (BVE), member of the German Food Codex Commission and the Administrative Board of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma, Italy
- 1991-2009 he was a lecturer at the University of Bonn, from 1999 as an honorary professor
- 1987 Doctorate at the Ruhr University Bochum
- Studied law in Bonn and Lausanne, Switzerland, lawyer since 1975