- 1987 Abitur. 1987 to 1995 studied law and Protestant theology in Bielefeld and Göttingen, 1995 First State Law Examination, 1996 to 1998 legal trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Celle, 1998 Second State Law Examination. Research assistant, since 1998 independent lawyer.
Member of ver.di and AWO.
Since April 2002 Chairman of the SPD district Weser-Ems, since November 2005 Chairman of the SPD Lower Saxony, since November 2001 Member of the SPD Federal Executive Committee. Since 1996, councilor of the municipality of Hinte, since 2001 council chairman there; October 2000 to 2005, member of the European Parliament.
Member of the Bundestag since 2005.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth
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