Born in Nakskov, Denmark on 5 May 1962.

Studied agricultural economics at Göttingen University and graduated as Dipl. Ing. agr.

Partner in a wholesale and retail organic wine business until 1998

Member of the state parliament (Landtag) of Lower Saxony from 1998 to 2021

2/2013 until 11/2017 Lower Saxony’s Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Action

12/2017 until 9/2021 Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Landtag of Lower Saxony

Since 10/2021 Member of the German Bundestag

Since 7/2022 Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Action