Klaus Erich Agthe (born August 12, 1930, in Niederholzhausen, Province of Saxony, Prussia, Germany) is a German-born businessman and author.
Klaus Agthe grew up in Apolda in the province of Thuringia, Germany, went to school in Weimar and studied business administration at the Humboldt University in Berlin under Professor Konrad Mellerowicz.
In the course of his studies, he eventually followed Mellerowicz to Technische Universität Berlin where he received his doctorate in 1958 with the work "Die Abweichungen in der Plankostenrechnung."
He was elected to the Board of Directors of Yellow Freight and VIAG North America, among others[3] Since 2005, Agthe lives in retirement.
[citation needed] In November 2008, Agthe published an autobiography entitled Shadows of War: A German Life in the Century of Extremes[1] in the United States of America .