Life and career:

• 1971: born in Usingen, has lived in Weilrod ever since; married
• Until 1991: attended the Christian-Wirth school in Usingen and completed Abitur (school-leaving certificate giving right of entry to university)
• Until 1999: studied Latin, history and ancient Greek as part of a teacher training course at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen
• Assistant at the constituency office of Brigitte Kölsch, Member of the Land parliament of Hesse
• Private secretary to District Commissioner Jürgen Banzer (Hochtaunus) from December 1999
• Since September 2002: Member of the German Bundestag for the Hochtaunus-Oberlahn constituency
  Vice Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid
  Deputy Member of the Committee on International Relations
  Member of the Subcommittee on Arms Control and Disarmament
  Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board on sustainable development
  Member of the Supervisory Board of the "Zentrum für internationale Friedenseinsätze" (honorary)
  Member of the Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe
  Member of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU)
  Deputy Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Euromed
  Member of the working party of local politics of the CDU/CSU-parliamentary group
  Member of the working party of tourism of the CDU/CSU-parliamentary group
  Member of the Advisory Board of the German Foundation for World Population (DSW)

Political career:

• Member of the CDU since 1990; Member of the Young Union (Youth section of
  the CDU/CSU) since 1989
• Held various positions in the Young Union at local, county and district level
• 1993 - 1999 and since 2006: member of the CDU parliamentary group on Hochtaunus county council (deputy chairman)
• Since 2001: chairman of the CDU parliamentary group on Weilrod local council
• Since 1990: member of the executive of the Weilrod branch of the CDU (deputy chairman)
• Since 1996: member of the executive of the Hochtaunus county branch of the CDU
• Since 2001: member of the Hochtaunus county executive of the Local Government Policy Association
• Since 2005: member of the executive of the Untermain district branch of the CDU

Other activities:

• Until 1995: worked with young people at an independent youth club
• 1994-2004: member of the executive of Rod an der Weil voluntary fire service (head of young people's section and chairman)
• Member of other local clubs and associations (sports club, choir, Red Cross)
• Member of executive committee in different clubs with cultural, charitable and enviromental objectives