 After attending a 15-month course on administrative management at the state chancellery of Bavaria, he became a presiding judge at a "Landgericht" (regional court), serving from 1982 to 1984.Later, he worked at the Bavarian state ministry of justice, where he became an assistant director and the head of the division for legislative planning, constitutional law and European law between 1989 and 1992.He then became the president of diverse courts.