The Joy of Being Alive and Not a Bit Sad

Spannende berufliche Reisen in den Nahen und Fernen Osten und Afrika eines Vertriebsingenieurs

Klaus Friesleben, born in Steinhöring near Ebersberg in 1940, grew up and went to school in Munich in the post-war period. Trained as an electrician. After studying engineering at the Oskar-von-Miller Polytechnic, he joined Siemens in Munich as a young engineer in 1966. In 1966, he moved to Siemens London.
In 1971, he returned to Germany to work for Siemens Erlangen and was deployed worldwide as a sales engineer for airport lighting and later ICE high-speed trains until his retirement in 1998. After the death of his wife Gudrun in 2007, he met Anja Burgard, who became his partner until she also succumbed to cancer in 2021.
Klaus Friesleben lives in Forchheim and has been volunteering since 2008 with the Treffpunkt Aktive Bürger association, the Forchheim Senior Citizens Club, where he currently serves on the board.