Dr. Thomas Scheben

I am German, 41 years of age, unmarried. I was born in Lbeck at the
Baltic coast and grew up in the centre of Germany near Kassel in Hessen.
After military service in the armored infantry, discharged as a
corporal, I studied law, oriental languages and history of the Middle
East. My dissertation focused on the reforms in 19th century Ottoman
Empire. In my professional life, I started as district secretary of the
Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of Chancellor Helmut Kohl,
and joined a former GDR daily newspaper after the reunification as their
correspondent for governmental affairs. Since 1994, I am representing
the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, an organization close to the CDU, here
in Egypt, were we administer development projects and act as a liaison
officer in the political field.

Amongst my hobbies are horseback-riding and fencing. I joined the dippy
and wargamers' community in 1975 and acted later as founder and first
editor of the only German wargame magazine ,Der Musketier" (one Charlie
so far) and of the German wargamer association as well. Here and there I
contributed to US-magazines like ,Strategy & Tactics" and ,Command
Magazine"; for Ty Bomba I worked as a developer and playtester of some
of his early designs. Special fields of interest are military history in
general, European wars, the American Civil War, the Middle East and from
WWII the Eastfront and North Africa in particular. Of course, I also
enjoy games like Junta, History of the World and Republic of Rome,
having had a lot of fun especially with Junta; sad enough, that there
aren't any players around here in Egypt (at least I did not meet some).
Because of this, I play a couple of games by mail.