is 1st Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne. Born in 1958, social scientist, director of the seminar for social policy and director of the seminar for cooperatives at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne; Honorary professor (social economics of nursing) at the Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar. Spokesman of the DZA Scientific Advisory Board; Honorary Chairman of the Society for Social Progress, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Association of Public Services.