• Born in 1942
• Studied law and worked part-time as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Private International Law in Hamburg
• He then completed his legal clerkship in Hamburg and began working as a lawyer at the former law firm Schneider Stein in 1972. Since then has worked exclusively in the field of family and inheritance law
• Admission to the Hanseatic OLG Hamburg 1977
• Partner in the law firm Schneider Stein & Partner since 1974
• Senior partner since 2000
• Member for several years of the expert committee of the Hanseatic Bar Association for the admission to the bar.
  Specialist lawyer in family law
• Retired from partnership since 2013 and working on a reduced scale

Memberships

Honorary posts

• Vice President of the Presidium of the Lawyers' Union of Specialised Lawyers