1982 – 1986:

Schwebheim primary school

1986 – 1995:

Alexander-von-Humboldt secondary school (Gymnasium) Schweinfurt: School leaving qualification (Abitur) scholarship in Augusta College USA

1995 - 2000:

Law studies at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians University in Würzburg, Scholarship holder from the Konrad-Adenauer foundation

1997 - 1998:

Academic assistant to Prof. Sieber (Chair of criminal law, criminal procedural law, right of information and legal informatics in Würzburg)

October 1996:

Internship in the local court in Schweinfurt (criminal court)

March 1997:

Internship in a lawyer's office in Schweinfurt

September 1997:

Internship with the CDU/CSU fraction of the German Federal Government, Bonn

1998:

Semester abroad at the Lausanne university in Switzerland, French law and European law course of studies, language studies at the École de français moderne

2000:

First state law examination (Specialist area: environmental law administrative law)

August 2000 – October 2001:

PhD at the university of Würzburg, PhD scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer foundation            
PhD topic: parliamentary investigation committees

2001 - 2003:

Legal clerkship: Schweinfurt local court, Lower Franconia government, lawyer's office in Schweinfurt

2003:

Price Waterhouse Coopers Veltins, Rechtsanwalts GmbH, Munich
Candidate for the academic award from the Bundestag (German lower house of parliament) with dissertation
Second state law examination
Specialist area: commercial law

since 2004:

Lawyer
Representative of the CSU in the European parliament, Lower Franconia region

1995:

Entry into the Bavarian Youth Union of the CSU (Junge Union, JU)

1995:

Member of the JU district committee in Schweinfurt-Land

1997:

Foundation of the JU local group in Schwebheim, entry into CSU

1997 - 2003:

Representative district chairperson of the JU in Schweinfurt-Land

1996 - 1999:

Regional managing director of the JU in Lower Franconia

1997 - 1999:

Member of the regional committee of the JU in Lower Franconia, local chairperson of the JU in Schwebheim

1999:

Foundation of the environmental working group in Lower Franconia

1999 - 2001:

German councillor of the Bavarian JU, head of the environmental working group of the JU in Bavaria

1999 - 2009:

Representative regional chairperson of the JU in Lower Franconia

since 1999:

Member of the CSU district committee

since 2001:

Representative regional chairperson of the CSU environmental working group

since 2001:

Representative state chairperson of the CSU environmental security and regional planning working group

2002-2008:

Municipal councillor in Schwebheim

since 2003:

Member of the JU state committee;
head of the Bavarian JU environment and energy working group;
Member of the CSU regional committee

February 2004:

Nomination at 4th place in the CSU Bavaria election list for the European election

since July 2004:

Member of the European Parliament
Committees: Environment issues, public health and food safety;
Domestic market and consumer protection;
Employment and social affairs
Parliamentary positions: Environment and consumer protection, health and sports policy speaker of the CSU group in the European parliament

since 2007:

Member of the state committee of the women's union

since 2008:

District councillor in the Schweinfurt district

January 2009:

4th place in the CSU Bavaria list for the European election

since 2009:

Regional chairperson of the Lower Franconia
Women's Union
Vice-chairman of the parliamentary group for
small-medium sized businesses
Member of the CSU party committee

June 2009:

Re-election as member of the European parliament
Committees: Environmental issues, public health and food safety;
Domestic market and consumer protection
Parliamentary positions: Environment and consumer protection, health and sports policy speaker of the CSU group in the European Parliament 

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CSU Schwebheim

Youth Union Schwebheim

Foreign and security policy working group

Environmental working group

Environmental security and regional planning working group

Christian social workers' union

Europa-Union

Medium-sized businesses union

Paneuropa-Union

Local governmental association

Protestant working group

Working group for university and culture

Belgian-Bavarian society

Protestant women's association in Schweinfurt DEF

Advisory councillor for the Niederwerrn trade association

Schwebheim choir

Catholic worker movement in Würzburg

Liederkranz Schweinfurt 1833 e.V. (choir)

Schwebheim local history working group e.V.

TSV 04 Schwebheim

Wirtschaftjunioren Schweinfurt (Schweinfurt academic juniors)

until 2000

Competitive sport: tennis
(several times Bavarian champion)
Skiing, cycling

09.05.2008

Medal for special services for Bavaria and in a united Europe (More)