Von Buchenroder matriculated from Chatty Senior Secondary School and studied at Peninsula Technikon.[1] In 2006, he was elected as a councillor for the Democratic Alliance in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality. During his eight years as a councillor, he was chief whip of the DA caucus. Von Buchenroder has also been a constituency chair for the DA for three terms, a constituency leader in Winterhoek and a deputy provincial chair.[2]