| Short biography |
Born 28 February 1945 in Schleswig, married, one child | Sept. 2005 - 2008 | Director, Public Policy Center, Research Events Center | | July 1991 – Sept. 2005 | Director, Research Department "Raumwirtschaft" (Regional Economics and Infrastructure), the Kiel Institute for the World Economy | | July 1992 – 1997 | Director, Research Programme on "The Social Market Economy, Challenges and Conceptual Response" (sponsored by the Bertelsmann Foundation for four years) | | Feb. 1989 – June 1991 | Counsellor for Structural Policy, Economics and Statistics Department, OECD, Paris | | Sept. 1969 – Jan. 1989 | The Kiel Institute for the World Economy | | 1969–1970 | Transport Research | | 1971–1978 | Business Cycle Analysis | | 1978–1984 | Research in Labour Markets | | 1984–1989 | Head of Division "Regional Economics" | | 1984 | PhD dissertation on "Staatliche Interventionen am Arbeitsmarkt. Eine Kritik" (Government Interventions in Labor Markets. A Critique), Kiel University | | 1964 – 1969 | Study of Economics Nürnberg (1964) and Saarbrücken (1965-1969) | |