I worked as textile engineer selling textile machinery all over the world. Ten years ago I retired from work and from that time I was into the internet. Today I operate about 100 websites for different services and goods.

As an engineer I am aquainted to all technical things, and therefore the construction of the web is familar to me. Besides the administrative roles in my work life, I worked in honorare postes in teaching and administration with high social relevance.

I work the most time of the day on the web, because I have to update all my websites. And when I finished, I have to start again at the beginning. This work is only for myself, and I am really independent from any organisation or party.

I am divorced and, as one of the less males, I live with my two sons ( 16+17). They both want to study on it-jobs. I was on the web from the early beginning, and I know the difficulties formerly, and how the web enlarged, and how the technical development went on. But in the last years I noticed that politics spread its arms to the web. The politicians try to caprture the web for their needs, and especially here in Germany ther starts a discussion about a political and administartive censorship of the web. If I should get elected, it will be my main task to keep politics out of the web.

I am independent, and not addicted to any employer, company, government, multinational entity or party. For keeping my independance I will not be paid for my work at ICANN, but you can be shure, that I will invest my time and my force on the behaviour of ICANN.