Stefan: Something about myself and my interests

Quick overview of my life

I was born in June 1970 at the district hospital in Wasserlos (now a part of the town Alzenau i. Ufr). This is a small village submontane of Hahnenkamm, the highest point of a mountain chain of the natural region which is called Spessart. I started my education, as usual in Germany, with primary school. With the age of 12 I transferred to the Secondary School at Alzenau i. Ufr. Finally I went to a technichal Highschool in Frankfurt which was called, I will use the german term here, Philipp-Holzmann-Fachoberschule for Agricultural Science.

After I reached there my final degree (Fachhochschulreife) I went to the Military Service. As a fan of climbing and skiing it was always my dream to go to the mountain special forces. With luckand after I did a basic climbing training, I went 1989 to Gebirgsjägerbatallion 232 in Bischofswiesen - Strub (close to Berchtesgaden). My first idea was joining a hunting seminar, but it did not work, so I decided for some seminars to reach a seargant level in Bad Reichenhall and at the Mountain and Winter fighting school in Mittenwald. Because the periode for Military Services changed, I was able to start earlier than expected at Fachhochschule Weihenstephan and left as Seargant of Reserve.

In Autumn 1991 I went directly to Freising-Weihenstephan, where I started studying Forest Engineering. After a while I noticed that a Forest Engineer, which was my target during my studies, was not what I expect and further the goverment decided to reduce hiring Forest Engineers. Because I had a lot of fun at my student Jobs at LMU München, Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung and at my practical training at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos, Switzerland, I changed my focus. At the begin I just hoped I could find a job which combine my biological and mathematicatic/informatic skills. At the start of 1997 I left Freising with my final degree

Years of starting in the job followed. In our Family this was the time too, where my Grandma died and my father and my grandpa got sick, so my family needs to take care on them. Additional we started with renovating our house. Because of the age of the house and many years nobody cannot change some needed repairs, it took us about ten years to complete what we planned. Meanwhile the house is fine so far, just I realised that renovation and rapairing will never stop fully.

 From an job perspective there I worked about 19 years for banks or investement companies. Here I experianced a lot of nice times but very bad times as well. Since 2016 I am working as an Application Manager in a software company and I am very happy with my job. Even the economic and social background change and I guess we will have to master a lot to reach what is called "Industry 4.0" I find it very positive that I am able to work at Home from time to time, so I can join easier issues which are more important to me than others - my family.

My family started begin of 2009, when I met the love of my life - Pauline. Since begin of 2010 we are married and on the 11th of February 2011 our first daughter Josephine was born. it is nearly unbelivable that she is already at the 3rd class of Primary School. At April the 22nd of 2015 our second daughter Elizabeth was born as well and she join Kindergarten since nearly two years. We live meanwhile in the older part of our house and as described before renovating is needed again. Good is that just few more bigger tasks are open and i hope no bigger issues will happen next time..

My hobbies

My all time favorites are Hunting and Fishing. After many years doing some Martial Arts I decided to do something which suits better to my age. So I got member of the local sport club and go about once a week to their Fitness Studio. Additional I am registered to Taiji-Raum of Gudrun Geibig in Aschaffenburg. Finally I am back to what I like and no belt exams anymore. On our weekends we like to go caravaning, go paddling or go hiking.

Pictures of myself

At our Web Gallery you will find some pics from myself