Was head of the patient coaching working group of the DGbG eV1952–1960 studied human medicine in Göttingen and Munich. 1965–2000 established himself as a specialist in general medicine, initially in Upper Bavaria and later in Munich. 1974 - 2004 various leading positions in medical professional associations and medical self-administration at state and federal level. 1997 co-initiator of the founding of the Federal Association of Managed Care eV (BMC), 1997 – 2007 its chairman, since then honorary chairman of the BMC. 1998 co-founder of a medical network in Munich (MQM). Since 2007 he has been vice president of the DGbG eV, which emerged from the ViP. He unfortunately passed away.