| 1945, February 11 | Born in Wentorf bei Hamburg, Germany: 53° 29′ 35“ North, 10° 15′ 12“ East |
Education and professional experience
| 1951 – 1955 | Primary school („Grundschule“) in Hamburg-Ottensen |
| 1955 – 1964 | Secondary school („Gymnasium“) in Hamburg-Ottensen |
| 1964 – 1970 | Studies in physics and mathematics at Universität Hamburg, supported by a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) on the recommendation of Werner DÖRING (1911 – 2006) and, after the Diploma in Physics, by a Kurt-Hartwig-SIEMERS-Stipendium/Wissenschaftspreis of the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung on the recommendation of Pascual JORDAN (1902 – 1980) |
| 1970 – 1971 | Research and teaching assistant in the group of Ludwig TEWORDT (1926 – 2016) at Universität Hamburg, Germany |
| 1971 – 1979 | Research and teaching assistant in the group of Uwe BRANDT (1944 – 1997) at (Technische) Universität Dortmund, Germany |
| 1976 | Guest scientist in the group of Herbert WAGNER (born 1935) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich (then: KFA Jülich), Germany |
| 1980 – 1981 | Research fellow in the group of Richard BAUSCH (born 1935) at (Heinrich-Heine-) Universität Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1981 – 1982 | Substituting a professorship of theoretical physics at Universität (Duisburg-)Essen, Germany |
| 1982 – 1983 | Professor of theoretical physics at (Heinrich-Heine-) Universität Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany |
| 1983 to Present | Professor of theoretical physics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany |
| 1987 | Guest professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Host: David P. LANDAU (born 1941) |
| 1994 | Declining a professorship of theoretical/mathematical physics at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany |
| 2010, March 31 | (Semi-)retirement („Entpflichtung“) |
| 2012, Oct. – Dec. | Guest professor at Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany Hosts: Werner KIRSCH (born 1956) and Wolfgang SPITZER (born 1966) |
Academic degrees
| 1964, January 27 | Abitur; from „Gymnasium (für Jungen in) Altona“, Hamburg; form-master/class-teacher: Gerd BANGEN (1920 – 1991) |
| 1970, July 7 | Diploma in physics („Dipl.-Phys.“); from Universität Hamburg; thesis supervised by Wolfgang KUNDT (born 1931) |
| 1975, September 22 | Doctorate in physics („Dr. rer. nat.“); from (Technische) Universität Dortmund; thesis supervised by Uwe BRANDT (1944 – 1997) |
| 1981, February 13 | Habilitation in physics („Priv.-Doz.“); that is, the official qualification for independent research and lecturing on physics; from (Technische) Universität Dortmund |