studied at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and completed his urological specialist training in 1972. He completed his habilitation a few years later and was then appointed senior physician at the Urological Clinic in Bonn. In the mid-1980s, he initially headed the urology department at the Urban Hospital in Berlin and from 1988 took on responsibility for the entire hospital. Since 1996 he has been the scientific director of the Men's Health Foundation and since 2009 he has also worked at the Berlin MEOCLINIC Men's Health Center.