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,[3][4] 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,[5][6] 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.
He joined the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania in 1990, and served as a member of its board of education in Transylvania from 1997, and a member of the local party board in Sibiu from 1998. In 2001, he was elected President of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania.
In 2000, the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR) in Sibiu decided to run him as a candidate for mayor. Despite the fact that Sibiu's German minority had shrunken to a mere 1.6%, Iohannis was elected with 69.18% of the votes and has won two re-elections in a row, obtaining some of the largest electoral scores in the country: 88.7% of the vote in 2004, and 87.4% in 2008 re-elections. He is the first ethnic German mayor of a Romanian city since Alfred Dörr, who served from 1940 to 1945. The small German minority is popular in Romania, where they are often viewed as hard-working, precise and uncompromising. Many Romanians also remember that the country experienced some of its best moments under German kings over a century ago.[6]
Throughout his tenure as mayor, he has managed to jump start the restoration of the town's infrastructure, the restoration of its historic center, and a tightening of the city administration. Iohannis is also widely credited with turning the city into one of Romania's most popular tourist destinations thanks to the extensive renovation of the old downtown. xKlaus Iohannis -pedia, the freeencyclopediap Vie rKlaus Iohannis -pedia, the freeencyclopediaz Mona Berry u Berry Wholesale