Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young student from Leipzig, now Dr. Stefan Roehrbein, approached Sister Cities International in Washington, D.C., with the idea of establishing a sister city relationship between his hometown and Houston. A groundswell of support in Leipzig and Houston gave the sister city relationship a dynamic and auspicious start that continues to this day. Business people, doctors, students and other citizens practice an active and fruitful exchange between the two cities, living up to the spirit of international friendship contemplated by the sister cities program.
