Dr. Klaus Rees, 79, of Vinings, Georgia passed away on December 10, 2020. A Vinings resident for 40 years, Klaus was a prominent cardiologist and member of the community and a loving husband and father to wife Lauren and son Lukas. The son of Oskar and Paula Rees, Klaus was born in Freiburg, Germany where his parents operated a carpentry business. A bright student at Kepler-Gymnasium, he continued his education at the University of Freiburg where he was granted a scholarship in the United States, involving a National Institutes of Health diabetes research study at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Upon completion of his scholarship, Klaus returned to Germany to receive his M.D. from the University of Giessen, and also received an M.D. from UT Southwestern. He completed his fellowship in cardiology at Emory in 1976. He interned at Grady Hospital and the Atlanta VA Medical Center. After completing an additional interventional cardiology fellowship at