Karl Otto Ludwig Klaus Dierks[1] (19 February 1936 – 17 March 2005) was a German-born Namibian deputy government minister, a transport planner and civil engineer in Namibia.

It was at this time that Dierks started to write about Namibian history, "pursuing an academic war against the apartheid regime"[3] by outlining the cultural and economic development of the area before the encroachment of European settlers and missionaries, a fact contested by the colonial regime.

[3] At Namibian independence in 1990 he became deputy minister, first with the Works, Transport and Communication portfolio and later in the Ministry for Mines and Energy.

[2] He also wrote a number of publications in the field of transport and telecommunications and the book Chronology of Namibian History: From Pre-historical Times to Independent Namibia.

[6] Klaus Dierks lived up until his death with his wife Karen von Bremen and his four children in Windhoek.