• Born in Hamburg in 1949
• Studied law and legal clerkship in Hamburg
• Started as a lawyer at the law firm Schneider Stein & Partner in 1981, since then has worked exclusively in the field of family and inheritance law
• Admission to the Hanseatic OLG Hamburg 1986
• From 1987 to 31 December 2020 partner in the law firm Schneider Stein Leßmann Carlberg Uecker, from which Schneider Stein & Partner emerged
• Specialist lawyer for family law since 1998
• Co-author of the "Praxishandbuch Familienrecht", specialist author for the journal Familie Partnerschaft Recht (FPR)

Memberships

• Hamburg Bar Association (HAV)
• Working group on family law in the German Bar Association
• German Family Court Conference

Publications

Loose-leaf collections:

• Scholz / Kleffmann/ Motzer "Praxishandbuch Familienrecht" Author of the chapter "Güterrecht", Verlag C.H.Beck

Judgement reviews:

• OLG Nuremberg 10 UF 356/08, Determination of the value in dispute in an action for modification, in FamFR 2009, p. 24
• BGH XII RZ 146/08, Limits to the limitation of post-marital maintenance, in FamFR 2009, p. 162
• AG Tempelhof-Kreuzberg 124 F 5730/09, conclusiveness of an action for modification with new Düsseldorf table, in FamFR 2010, p. 66
• OLG Hamm 13 UF 272/07, Maintenance assessment according to the principle of changeable marital living conditions, in FamFR 2010, p. 153
• OLG Brandenburg 10 UF 69/10, Binding effect of earlier modification decisions in child maintenance (judgement by default), in FamFR 2010, p. 464
• BGH XII ZR 197/09, Determination and limitation of post-marital top-up maintenance, in FamFR 2011, p. 30
• OLG Hamm 8 UF 249/10, Lawyer's duty of care when checking deadlines, in FamFR 2011, p. 162
• OLG Stuttgart 8 WF 66/11, Cancellation of legal aid in the case of legal representation, in FamFR 2011, p. 300
• Higher Regional Court Saarbrücken 9 WF 11/11, Assignment of a non-resident lawyer, in FamFR 2011, p. 430
• OLG Rostock 10 UF 146/11, Consequences of the change of custody of a minor child in maintenance proceedings; in FamFR 2012, p. 128
• OLG Dresden 21 UF 1337/11, No liability for damages in the case of justified criminal charges, in FamFR 2012, p. 331
• OLG Stuttgart 18 WF 229/12, The concept of general school education within the meaning of § 1603 para. 2 sentence 2 BGB, in FamFR 2012
• OLG Celle 17 UF 17/13, Requirements for a maintenance claim in the case of staged training and second training in FamFR 2013, p. 294