Christian Funke is looking past the rooftop pool of his Leipzig-area home toward Markkleeberger See, a deep freshwater lake that has become a magnet for new villa construction in the heart of former communist East Germany.
“All this is brand new,” says the 39-year-old oil and gas entrepreneur and Leipzig native, whose career has taken him from a North Sea oil rig to the Persian Gulf and many places in between.
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