| 1944 | Born in Lauenburg (i. Pom.) |
| 1963 | Abitur at the "Altes Realgymnasium" in Munich |
| 1968 | Diploma thesis RPA-Rechnungen im Kontinuum at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) |
| 1966 - 1969 | Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
| 1969 - 1971 | Scientific coworker at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum of TUM |
| 1971 | PhD with the thesis Das optische Potential und die Dichteverteilung für die elastische Streuung schwerer Ionen (The optical potential and the density distribution for the elastic scattering of heavy ions) at the TUM |
| 1971 - 1978 | Scientific assistent at the Physics department of the TUM |
| 1974 - 1975 | One year research stay at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, USA) with a fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| 1977 | Habilitation with the thesis Einfluss der Kernstruktur auf Alphazerfall und Alphatransfer (Influence of nuclear structure on alpha decay and alpha transfer) at the TUM |
| 1978 - 1979 | Heisenberg fellowship |
| 1979 | Professor for Theoretical Physics at the University of Siegen |
| from 1990 on | Publication of textbooks on Theoretical Physics |
| 2009 | Retirement |