About
About me___________________________________________________________________
Born and raised in Würzburg, Germany, I became interested in World War II history at an early age.
After graduating from high school with a degree in history, I served in an armored division of the West-German Army.
After military service I studied marketing in the 1980s at Würzburg University, earned a master's degree, and subsequently worked in marketing and public relations for several large US companies for 30 years.
A visit to the grave of my grandfather, buried in a German military cemetery in Normandy, sparked my particular interest in the Battle of Normandy and the decision to write a guidebook about the Allied landings, published in 2011. This book is available in English and German.
Since 2012, I have been guiding groups of visitors to Normandy for the organisation Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (German War Grave Association), and shortly thereafter I also began offering private
Normandy D-Day tours.
In addition to publishing the
guidebook on the Normandy landings, I am also co-author of
"Managing and interpreting D-Day's sites of memory - Guardian of remembrance" published in 2016.
In the off-season, I lecture at the German Armed Forces Reservists Association (VdRBw) about the Battle
of Normandy and offer virtual D-Day tours together with my friend and fellow tour guide Sean Claxton.
In 2019, 2021, and in 2023 I had the pleasure of appearing on WW2 television’s YouTube channel*
in the series "The Germans on D-Day" , "Surrender in Cherbourg"
and
"The German Cemetery at La Cambe, Normandy".
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