| 1914-04-19 | born in Janellen, a hamlet in East Prussia, Germany |
| 1929-09-11 - 1935-10-31 |
worked in an coffee company in Bremen, Germany |
| 1936-11 - 1938-10 |
labour service, military service, Germany |
| 1938-10-26 - 1939-08-03 |
baptistic theological seminar in Hamburg Horn, Germany |
| 1939-08-22 - 1945-05-07 |
military service, Germany, Netherland, Norway, Austria, Romania, Slovakia |
| 1940-01 | engagement with Therese Sandersfeldt in Bremen, Germany |
| 1940-05 | marries Therese Sandersfeldt in Bremen, Germany |
| 1945-08 - 1946-06 |
Bibelschule Wiedenest in Bergneustadt near Cologne, Germany |
| 1946-07-03 - 1950-10-31 |
preacher in Wolfsburg, Germany and working for the "Volksmission" |
| 1952-02-01 - |
sales agent, insurance agent in Bremen, Germany |
| 2001-11-22 | died in Bremen, Germany |