After gaining a degree in Agricultural Economics he decided to focus on journalism instead of crops. As a department head and correspondent for a number of newspapers he cultivated economic policy issues in Germany and abroad.
French correspondent for Handelsblatt in Paris
Head of the Opinions department at Handelsblatt
Financial Times Deutschland, founding editor and head of the Politics department in Berlin
Correspondent for Die Zeit in Bonn
Die Zeit, Hamburg
Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Die Zeit in Brussels
Correspondent for the Agra Europe news service in Brussels
“Der Euro – Kurs auf die Zukunft” (with Norbert Walter, Campus Verlag), “Der neue deutsche Kapitalismus” (Campus Verlag) and “Können wir Frankreich vertrauen?” (KDP Verlag)
Native German, French (fluent), Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)