The new head of department is 57 years old and lives in the district of Ludwigsburg. He studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. After his legal clerkship in the district court district of Stuttgart, which included a stint at the Ludwigsburg district office, he completed his doctorate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tübingen. He then worked as a lawyer in a medium-sized law firm in the Stuttgart area before becoming Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the Villingen-Schwenningen University of Applied Police Sciences in 2003 and additionally Vice Rector of the university in 2004. In 2014, he took over as Head of Department 1 (Central Services) of the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation. From 2019 to 2022, he was seconded to the Stuttgart Administrative Court as a temporary judge. In the course of this year, he returned to his original position in the subordinate police department and was seconded to the Ministry of Social Affairs (Vaccination Task Force), then to the Ministry of the Interior (Department 1, Fundamental Personnel Matters).
