Carmen Iohannis
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Carmen Georgeta Iohannis (née Lăzurcă born 2 November 1960, latinized as Carmen Johannis) is an English teacher at the Gheorghe Lazăr National College in Sibiu and the wife of Klaus Iohannis, the current President of Romania, whom she married in 1989.[4][5][6] [7][8]
Quick Facts First Lady of Romania, President ...
Carmen Iohannis | |
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First Lady of Romania | |
Assumed role 21 December 2014 | |
President | Klaus Iohannis |
Preceded by | Maria Băsescu |
Personal details | |
Born | Carmen Georgeta Lăzurcă (1960-11-02) 2 November 1960 (age 63) Sibiu, Romanian People's Republic |
Nationality | Romanian[1] |
Spouse | |
Residence(s) | Sibiu (private)[2] Bucharest (official)[3] |
Occupation | English teacher at Gheorghe Lazăr National College, Sibiu |
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Carmen and Klaus met while they were both students at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Immediately after graduation, the two were assigned as teachers to Agnita and Sibiu. She was the reason Iohannis chose to stay in Romania when the rest of his family emigrated to Germany in the early 1990's. She is an ethnic Romanian, while her husband is an ethnic German of Transylvanian Saxon descent. The two of them do not have children.[9][10]