| Date and Place
of Birth: August 23,
1951 in Buedesheim/Germany
Profession:
Test Pilot in the German Air
Force
Training and Experience:
1959-1974 Attended school in
Oldenburg, Cochem/Mosel, Memmingen, Bonn and Schelkingen.
1974-1976 Trained as an Aircraft Mechanic and attended
the Officers School of the German Air Force.
1976-1980 Studied Air- and Space Technology at the
University of the Armed Forces Munich,
Degree in Engineering, Diploma in Chemistry.
1980-1988 Pilot for single and multi-jet, high
performance aircrafts
1988-1989 Trained as a Test Piot in Manching and at ETPS,
Boscome Down (England), Test Pilot Class I.
1988-1990 Tested aviation equipment and compiled
technical and aeronautical expertise thereof.
1990-1992 Training for the German-Russian Space Mission
MIR '92.
March 17 - March 25, 1992 Flight to the Russian Space
Station MIR onboard Soyuz TM-14.
Aircraft Types:
Jets: F-104G, Tornado,
Alpha-Jet, F-16 and others
Transporters: Transall, Do 228, Do 28 and others
Helicopters: Bo 105, Gazelle, UH-1D and others as well as
diverse small aircrafts, micro-lights and gliders,
including Air-Air-Refueling of large and medium size
aircrafts.
Scientific Activities:
Mass Spectroscopy, gas
chromtography and application of chemical analytical
devices.
Main interest: fluid dynamics, EDV
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