Dr. Klaus P. Schmidt

Dr. Klaus P. Schmidt, 93-years old, passed away on Saturday, June 15, 2019 at home surrounded by his family. Dr. Schmidt, a Grosse Pointe Physician, was born in Sonderburg, Denmark. After a few years, the Schmidt family returned to Kiel at the Baltic Sea in Germany, where he received his formal education. He completed his medical studies at the Universities of Heidelberg and Kiel where he received his M.D. in 1952. In 1955, he married Margund H. Gerlach and two years later they immigrated to the United States. Dr. Schmidt began his residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, after which he established his private practice. He moved to Grosse Pointe Farms with his wife and two sons, where they spent 56 wonderful years. During the next several decades, Dr. Schmidt was an Internal Medicine Staff Physician at Bon Secours Hospital where he was Chairman of the Medical Records Subcommittee and Secretary of the Coronary Care Subcommittee. He spent ten years as a Wayne State University Assistant Clinical Professor, teaching students bedside medicine. Dr. Schmidt retired from his office practice in 2004 and continued to serve as a physician at the U.S. Armed Forces Entrance Examination Station in Troy until 2017. Dr. Schmidt enjoyed traveling with his family throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada and Europe. He also loved sailing, tennis, reading, music, photography and bicycling in Grosse Pointe. He is survived by his loving wife of 64 years, two sons, Rolf-Peter (Janet) and Eric, and three wonderful grandchildren, Peter, Kendall, Hans-Reiner, and one great-grandchild, Teddy. A celebration of life is being planned at a later date.

Funeral Home:

A. H. Peters Funeral Home of Grosse Pointe

20705 Mack Avenue

Grosse Pointe Woods, MI

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