He also worked as a specialist physician in the Neu-Ulm district of Gerlenhofen and now runs a private orthopedic practice in a Bad Wörishofen hotel.

Kleditzsch completed his high school diploma (Abitur) in 1962 and subsequently undertook a one-year nursing internship at the Sebnitz District Hospital.

[2] Kleditzsch had to deal with the GDR's crumbling health care system during his tenure, many hospitals being in a state of disrepair and suffering from severe labor and material shortages.

[5] In the few months leading up to the unification of the two German states, around a dozen laws and regulations are passed that create the legal framework for the transfer of the GDR's health care system to a unified Germany.

[4] Kleditzsch worked as a specialist physician in the Neu-Ulm district of Gerlenhofen[7] and now runs a private orthopedic practice in a Bad Wörishofen hotel.