Klaus was born in Marburg, Germany, and grew up in Dortmund in the Ruhr Valley, where his father worked as a technician with a steel producing company. After he graduated from high school, Klaus participated in apprenticeship programs in Germany, Italy, Brazil, and the US. He earned a Masters Degree in Economics and Business Administration from Ruhr Universität Bochum.
Klaus has been married to Concha, who is a native Mexican, for more than 40 years. They have one daughter, Fiorella, and the grandson Magnus.
For three years Klaus worked for a third party before deciding to take the entrepreneurial path that he has followed ever since. He established himself in Charlotte, NC, and over the course of many years, he founded several companies involved in the international steel trade. His latest endeavor, Nirosteel LLC, founded in 2009.
In addition to his professional life, he served many years as president of the German American Chamber of Commerce in North Carolina and was the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2013 to 2021. He has a passion for contemporary art - shown as "Art in the Office" at his Nirosteel, LLC, headquarters in Charlotte.
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