Education
He studied law at Ludwig Maximilian University, the University of Freiburg and the University of Kiel.
He studied law at Ludwig Maximilian University, the University of Freiburg and the University of Kiel.
He served as Attorney General of Germany from 7 February 1994 until 31 May 2006. He was appointed a federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice in 1991. As an Attorney General, he sometimes took politically unpopular but legally stringent decisions.