Matthias is our Fellowship Coordinator and the Coordinator of the German team. He has been a GNU/Linux user since 1999. Very soon he got interested in the political and social aspects of Free Software, so he decided to study Politics and Management at the University of Konstanz (pre-diploma) and the University of Potsdam (diploma). After being FSFE's first intern in 2004, he continued to work for us as a volunteer. In 2009 he finished his diploma thesis on IT coordination in the Superior Federal Administration, and started working full time for FSFE.
Amoungst other policy work, Matthias is or was in charge of our "I love Free Software" campaign, the "Ask your candidates" campaign for the German Federal Election in 2009, and the Free Software PDF Readers campaign. He is also a member of the SAGA expert group from the German Ministry of Interiour.
Beside writing in his weblog "I love it here" he is responsible for FSFE's monthly newsletter since June 2010, and writes about Free Software issues on the German blog Netzpolitik.org.
You can find interviews, some video recordings and transcripts with Matthias in the Fellowship wiki.