(translated from the German at http://www.broeckers.com/bio.html)
1954: Born June 26, 1954 in Limburg/Lahn.
1973: Diploma, conscientious objector, study at the Free University of Berlin (literature science/linguistics/politics).
1976: Taxi driver’s license, joined first Berlin taxi cooperative
1979/80: M. A. degree with honors for a thesis on "the role of the language in Psychoanalysis." State secondary school teaching certificate (German/politics).
1980: first newspaper articles (literature/theatre reviews), intern in a press agency, first teaching job.
1981: Married to Rita, employed by Germany’s alternative daily "tageszeitung" (taz) Berlin as culture editor, beginning of the friendship with Wolfgang Neuss.
1982: On April 14th, birth of twins Boris and Hannah.
1985: Publication of a book with texts by Wolfgang Neuss, "Common Sense is Pure Poison" (Heyne publishing house - out of print), cooperation with Neuss ' monthly Southwestern German Broadcasting Corporation SWF-Radio-Kabarett.
1986: Beginning of a column in taz (appearing weekly until 1997)
1987: Research on marijuana leads to a lengthy story about “Hemp Clouds and Drug War Profiteers” in the magazine "Transatlantik".
1989: Publication of an 800-page documentary on 10 years at the daily paper "taz - the Book" (publishing house 2001).
1991: Resignation as taz editor, last act: establishment of the last page "the truth". Work as freelance author, co-operation with Eberhard Sens on the book series "Cosmology" for the Insel publishing house, and an essay: "The Underground of the Supernatural" published in Sens’ “By the River of Heraklites” (Insel).
1992: Various broadcasts, particularly on scientific topics for the SFB , monthly column in Time Magazine.
1993: Writer for Die Woche ("the week") , publication of the book "The Rediscovery of the Useful Plant Hemp" ( publishing house 2001 ), initiator of the "Hemp House" enterprise.
1994: Managing partner in Hemp House GmbH , which supplies 15 hemp house shops as wholesaler with products of the raw material hemp. Chairman of the "Hemp Company e.V.", which institutes legal proceedings for the legalization of the cultivation of hemp
1995: Cofounder of the Treuhanf AG , which brings the first hemp share on the stock market in 1997. Winner of the annual prize of the German Hemp magazine. Innovation prize of the Second Channel of German Television consumer magazine "info."
1996: Publication of the Paperback edition of " The Rediscovery of the Useful Plant Hemp" (Heyne), cultivation of hemp becomes legal again in Germany.
1997: Hemp song published, composed together with Gerhard Seyfried.
1998: "The So-Called Supernatural - the Intelligence of the Earth. New Departure to an Understanding of Nature " (Eichborn publishing house).
1999: Contributions for a book about Viktor Schauberger, interview with Professor Fritz Popp concerning bio photon research, in F. Popp: "The Message of Food" ( publishing house 2001).
2000: Translation and publication of the German edition of the "Everything under Control" by Robert Anton Wilson (Eichborn publishing house).
2001: Resigned from Hemp House management, work as a freelance author. On Sept. 12, beginning of a series on the background of the WTC attacks in the on-line magazine telepolis.
2002: First 9/11 book published by 2001: “Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories and the Secrets of 9/11”.
"Cannabis: Hanf, Hemp, Chanvre, Canamo" - a quatrilingual coffee- table book about the most useful plant in the world, RK publishing house.
2003: The Transpsychedelic express , Homage to 96th Birthday of Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, Nachtschatten publishing house.
The book on 9/11 becomes an international best-seller - translation licenses in the Arabic, Hungarian, Greek and Indonesian.
At the end of July the sequel is published: "Facts, Falsifications and the Suppressed Evidence of 9/11."