I was born in Stuttgart in 1962 as the son of "refugees" (father near Gdansk, today Poland, mother Weimar). My professional career led me through a technical training in a Stuttgart power supply company to a small medium-sized company in Stuttgart where I was able to get to know all development, production and logistics chains. After a technical study course resp. the advanced technical certificate [college] I worked since 1990 in a Swabian global  company as an engineer and product manager for hardware and software products for the automotive sector.