Julian von Schleinitz lives in Schönau am Königssee and starts for WSV Königssee . The student came to luge through student tobogganing and is trained by Martin Schwab. In 2009 he became Junior World Champion in Nagano in singles and with the team, he repeated this success in 2010 in Igls both in singles with best times in both races and in the team, and in 2010 he won the overall ranking in the Junior World Cup. After von Schleinitz showed very good results in the German qualifying races for the 2010/11 World Cup , including winning the last qualifying race in Winterberg by a large margin of 0.32 seconds, he was used for the first time in the same position in the second World Cup season's race. first he won the Nations Cup for direct World Cup qualification with a new track record of 52,083 seconds and took third place in the World Cup race behind Armin Zoeggeler and David Möller . He left luge greats like Olympic and double world champion Felix Loch and the former overall world cup winner and European champion Albert Demtschenko behind and also kept his track record.
Von Schleinitz has competed in national championships since 2009 and finished ninth in Königssee . In 2010 he was able to improve by two places in Winterberg . In 2010 he was able to place himself in fifth place as the best of all starters who had never taken part in World Cup races before. On March 16, 2018, he announced that he was ending his career.