The author was born in 1965 in the Allgäu region. He spent his early childhood in several children's homes there. Starting at age 12, he lived in the Pestalozzi Village for Children and Adolescents in Wahlwies where he completed an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker at the age of 19. He later obtained his high school diploma and his entrance qualification for higher education. After training as an insurance salesman, he completed a degree in legal studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigsburg and graduated in 1997 with a major in tax and business law as a Diplom Finanzwirt (FH). In 2015, his first autobiographical work Verloren im Niemandsland (Rombach Verlag, Freiburg) was published, followed by his second autobiographical work Schattenkind, vergiss mein nicht (Verlag Urachhaus, Stuttgart) in 2018. Today he works as a successful freelancer in tax consulting in Southern Germany. Clemens Maria Heymkind is married and the father of four children.