| born | on Sept. 16, 1945 |
| in Köthen (Germany/Sachsen-Anhalt) | |
| family | widowed, 2 children, 3 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren |
| qualification | study of mathematics in Chemnitz and Leipzig, finished in 1969 with degree Dipl.-Math. |
| 1977 doctorate to Dr.rer.nat. | |
| 1986 state doctorate to Dr.paed.habil. | |
| profession | since 1969 working in computing departments in several enterprises |
| since 1977 working in higher education | |
| since Oct. 1997 professor for computer science at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences | |
| research | since 2010 working on the Proof of the Twin Prime Conjecture |