Born in 1940, a year of war, he grew up amidst the ruins of the post-war period, shaped by his school and university years during the early days of the Federal Republic of Germany, and a long working life in a rapidly changing world: in these memoirs, a child of the war looks back on 85 years. The narrator takes readers on a personal journey through family, school, university, work and the years that followed - and tells of the many people he encountered along the way. The result is a vivid portrait of a life in the 20th and 21st centuries - and, at the same time, a piece of contemporary history told first-hand.
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.
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