Sebastian Krumbiegel, a man of remarkable accomplishment and distinction, made his grand entrance into the world on June 5th, 1966, within the culturally and historically significant confines of Leipzig, a city steeped in tradition and heritage, which at that time was a part of the German Democratic Republic, a nation that would undergo a transformative period of great change, ultimately leading to its dissolution and eventual reunification with West Germany in the early 1990s, a development that would ultimately give rise to the modern, unified Germany we know and appreciate today.