In 1972, he was a member of the German Olympic Squad, losing his place with the final cut off.

After finishing his Physical Education Teacher Training 1974 in Berlin, he went 1976 to Australia working as a P.E.

In 1982, he received his Post-Graduate Diploma in Physical Education and Recreation for the Disabled at Deakin University (Burwood State College).

As a founding member of the Victorian Olympic Sports Association of and for the Blind (1980) he also introduced Goal Ball to Australia.

From 1990 to 1998 he was asked by the University of Melbourne and Renwick College Sydney, to lecture in Early Childhood Development, Motorik, and Integration of the Blind.