| born: 1922 |
| engineer of precision engineering ("Feinwerktechnik") |
| graduate engineer |
| 1937 to 1940 apprenticeship as precision mechanic Ihagee Kamerawerk (work with Karl Nüchterlein - construtor of the Kine Exacta) |
| 1943 to 1945 laboratory engineer Zeiss Ikon AG Dresden |
| 1946 to 1949 scientific assistant of Prof. Dr. August Klughardt ( chief of a scientific laboratory by order of the Ministry of Cinematography of the USSR) |
| 1955 to 1964 chief constructor of the Ihagee Kamerawerk, during this period affiliation of the construction department of Ihagee to VEB Pentacon Dresden with further irresponsibleness for the Ihagee products |
| 1971 after de facto liquidation of the Ihagee Kamerawerk chief of the information centre for Science and Technique in the Kombinat VEB Pentacon Dresden |
| since 1986 full-time Coordinator for the technical museum from Pentacon, for the documentation of the history of the manifacturing of cameras and cinematographical equipment in Dresden |
| 1991/1992 co-initiator of museum of photography of Dresden in the complex of buildings of the former Ernemann factory |
| died on January, 10 1998 |