Born and raised in Darmstadt in 1936, where he also experienced the war and post-war years. After attending school there, as well as in Opladen and Dillenburg, he graduated from the Wilhelm v. Oranien Gymnasium in 1957, then studied medicine at the Johann Wolfgang. v. Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, passing the State Examination in 1963 and receiving his Doctorate in 1966. After years as an assistant in Frankfurt, Bonn, Hamburg and Friedrichsdorf /Ts., he settled in 1972 as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry and opened his own practice in Augsburg until 1992. He then worked as a Socio-Medical Expert for the Swabian State Insurance Office, later until 2003 for the German Pension Insurance, and continued to work as an Medical Expert for the Augsburg Guardianship Court.  

In addition to his professional activities, he worked in social institutions (Diakonie, Caritas, Arbeiterwohlfahrt and Integration Advisory Board of the City of Augsburg) as well as the German-Turkish Society for Psychiatry. In retirement, resumption of former interests (music, languages, literature and philosophy), active in the Lutheran parish of St. Ulrich in Augsburg, as well as reviewer of scientific literature in a medical journal. He maintains a special interest in the history of medicine, especially during the Nazi era, with lectures and publications, among others at the Schwabenakademie Irsee. Active involvement in the film project "Die Stille schreit"® by Josef Pröll and wife Miriam Friedmann.