Personal and Professional Life
After graduating from the Faculty of Physics of the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj in 1983, Iohannis worked as a high school teacher of physics at various schools and colleges in Sibiu, including from 1989 to 1997 at the Samuel von Brukenthal Gymnasium in Sibiu, the oldest German-speaking school in Romania. From 1997 to 1999, he was Deputy General School Inspector of the Sibiu County, and from 1999 until his election as Mayor in 2000, he was General School Inspector, being the head of public schools in the County.
Iohannis is fluent in Romanian (at native level), German (native) and English. The original spelling of his name (which is a German name) is Johannis, but in Romanian, often the spelling Iohannis is used. Klaus Johannis uses both spellings himself. He is married, since 1989, to Carmen Johannis, an English teacher at the Colegiul Naţional Gheorghe Lazăr din Sibiu, and has no children. His parents, Susanne and Gustav Heinz Johannis, both Transylvanian Saxons, emigrated from their native Sibiu (German: Hermannstadt) to Würzburg in Germany in 1992, acquiring citizenship under the German Law of Return, like many other Transylvanian Saxons did after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania, the Lutheran German-speaking church in Transylvania.
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