Klaus Iohannis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Klaus Iohannis
Occupation	World Leader
Date Of Birth	Jun 13, 1959(1959-06-13)
Age	65
Birthplace	Sibiu
Country	Romania
Horoscope	Gemini

Klaus Iohannis Biography

Klaus Iohannis is one of the most popular and richest World Leader who was born on June 13, 1959 in Sibiu, Romania. In 2014, elected as a political Independent, Iohannis took office as Romania’s fifth President. Previously, he had served as Mayor of Sibiu and as leader of two different Romanian political parties: the National Liberal Party and the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania.

He succeeded Traian Basescu as President of Romania.

Born in the historic centre of Sibiu to a Transylvanian Saxon family, Klaus Iohannis is the eldest child of Gustav Heinz and Susanne Johannis. He has a younger sister, Krista Johannis (born 1963). His father worked as a technician at an enterprise, while his mother was a nurse. Both his parents as well as his sister emigrated from their native Sibiu (German: Hermannstadt) to Würzburg, Bavaria in Germany in 1992, acquiring citizenship there under the right of return granted by German nationality law, as most other Transylvanian Saxons after the fall of the Iron Curtain. However, he chose to live and work in Romania. As of 2014, his parents, sister and a niece live in Würzburg. Iohannis has stated that his family settled in Transylvania in present-day Romania 850 years ago. After graduating from the Faculty of Physics of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca in 1983, Iohannis worked as a high school physics teacher at various schools and colleges in Sibiu, including, from 1989 to 1997, 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 Sibiu County, and from 1999 until his election as mayor in 2000, he was the General School Inspector, head of public schools in the county.

Iohannis is fluent in German and Romanian at a native level and also speaks English. The original spelling of his name (which is German) is Johannis, but the name was registered by a Romanian official as Iohannis on his birth certificate and he has used both spellings interchangeably. In 1989, he married ethnic Romanian Carmen Lăzurcă, an English teacher at the Gheorghe Lazăr National College in Sibiu. They have no children. Iohannis is also a member of the Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession in Romania, the German-speaking Lutheran church in Transylvania.

A member of Romania’s Transylvanian Saxon minority group, he was born in Sibiu to Gustav and Susanne Johannis. In the late 1980s, he married a teacher named Carmen Lazurca.

Klaus Iohannis Net Worth

Klaus Iohannis is one of the richest World Leader from Romania. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Klaus Iohannis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After earning a science degree from the Babes-Bolyai University, he taught physics at several different Romanian high schools. Before being elected Mayor, he held the position of Sibiu County’s Deputy General School Inspector.

In 2014, he published a bestselling autobiography titled Step by Step.

Klaus Werner Iohannis (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈkla.us joˈhanis] , German: [ˈklaʊ̯s joˈhanɪs] ; also spelled Johannis; born 13 June 1959) is the president of Romania. He became leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) in 2014, after having served as leader of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (DFDR/FDGR) from 2001 to 2013. Iohannis was a physics teacher and a school inspector before entering full-time politics.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Klaus Iohannis height 6 ft 4 in Klaus weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Klaus Iohannis Dating?

According to our records, Klaus Iohannis married to Carmen Johannis. As of December 1, 2023, Klaus Iohannis’s is not dating anyone.

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On 7 November 2005 Iohannis was nominated as the “Personality of the Year for a European Romania” (Romanian: Personalitatea anului pentru o Românie europeană) by the Eurolink – House of Europe organization.

Facts & Trivia

Klaus Ranked on the list of most popular World Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Romania. Klaus Iohannis celebrates birthday on June 13 of every year.

In 2009, Iohannis had stated that he might possibly run for the office of President of Romania, although not in that year. Former Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu had said on 27 October 2009 and again on 23 April 2010 that he would like to see Iohannis become President of Romania.

Does Klaus Iohannis speak German?

Iohannis is fluent in German and Romanian languages at a native level and also speaks English.

How tall is Iohannis?

6′ 4″

Is Romania democratic?

Romania’s political framework is a semi-presidential representative democratic republic where the Prime Minister is the head of government while the President represents the country internationally, signs some decrees, approves laws promulgated by parliament and nominations as head of state.

Who runs Romania?

The incumbent head of state, as of 30 September 2022, is President Klaus Iohannis, a former longtime leader of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR) for many years and, briefly, of the National Liberal Party (PNL) in 2014 as well.