Volker was born in Germany and grew up in Berlin, where he studied Electrical Engineering at the TUB and worked as a development engineer.
At age 40, he decided to move to the beautiful Tuscan hills in Italy, where he bought an abandoned farm, started to produce excellent olive oil and transformed the medieval farmhouse into a flourishing agriturismo guesthouse. After more than 20 years in Tuscany, he decided to restart again, went to Boquete in Panama to study Spanish, and fell in love, first with the place and then with Maria. So he decided to settle here and start a new family. He speaks German and quite fluently Spanish and English, and still remembers some Italian and some of the French he had learned at school.