Manfred Grund (born 3 July 1955) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Early life, education and career

Manfred Grund was born 3 July 1955 in

Zeitz Zeitz ( hsb, Žič) is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river White Elster, in the triangle of the federal states Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony. History Zeitz was first recorded und ...

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(GDR). After earning his

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he worked as a turbine engineer at the State Coal Mine in

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before doing his military service from 1974 to 1975. Grund earned a diploma degree (

Dipl.-Ing. A ''Diplom'' (, from grc, δίπλωμα ''diploma'') is an academic degree in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and a similarly named degree in some other European countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Belaru ...

) in

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from the

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in 1980. From 1980 to 1990 he worked as a specialist engineer with the

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits i ...

Public Utility Works at

Bleicherode Bleicherode () is a town in the district of Nordhausen, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Wipper, 17 km southwest of Nordhausen. On 1 December 2007, the former municipality Obergebra was incorporated by Bleicherode. The for ...

Political career

Without previous political affiliation Grund entered politics in the wake of the 1989 revolution in the GDR, in the course of which he acted as speaker of the Heiligenstadt people's movement. In January 1990 he joined the Christian Democratic Union and assumed various positions with the CDU in the

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county and the state of

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. From 1990 to 1994 Grund served as head of the Heiligenstadt district administration authority. In 1994 Grund was first elected to the German

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for Nordhausen – Worbis – Heiligenstadt in Thuringia, a seat he has held ever since (renamed as

Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Kyffhäuserkreis Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Kyffhäuserkreis is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated ...

in 2017). Grund has served as parliamentary secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group and as chairman of the Thuringian Committee of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group since 1998.

Current committee assignments

Council of Elders
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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(deputy member)
Parliamentary assembly of the

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(OSCE)

Chairmanships

Thuringian Committee of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German

German-Central Asian parliamentary group

Electoral history

Electoral district 296 Nordhausen – Worbis – Heiligenstadt,

1994 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 16 October 1994 to elect the members of the 13th Bundestag. The CDU/CSU alliance led by Helmut Kohl remained the largest faction in parliament, with Kohl remaining Chancellor in a narrowly re-elected coa ...

- Manfred Grund – 51.4% Electoral district 190 Eichsfeld – Nordhausen,

1998 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 27 September 1998 to elect the members of the 14th Bundestag. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) emerged as the largest faction in parliament for the first time since 1972, with its leader Gerhard Schröd ...

- Manfred Grund – 40.1% Electoral district 190 Eichsfeld – Nordhausen,

2002 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 22 September 2002 to elect the members of the 15th Bundestag. Incumbent Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's centre-left "red-green" governing coalition retained a narrow majority, and the Social Democratic Pa ...

- Manfred Grund – 41.3% Electoral district 190 Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis I,

2005 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 18 September 2005 to elect the members of the 16th Bundestag. The snap election was called after the government's defeat in a state election, which caused them to intentionally lose a motion of confide ...

- Manfred Grund – 37.4% Electoral district 189 Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis I,

2009 German federal election Federal elections took place on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag (parliament) of Germany. Preliminary results showed that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union ...

- Manfred Grund – 43.0% Electoral district 189 Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis I,

2013 German federal election Federal elections were held on 22 September to elect the members of the 18th Bundestag of Germany. At stake were all 598 seats to the Bundestag, plus 33 overhang seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany/ Christian ...

- Manfred Grund – 49.6% Electoral district 189

2017 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democr ...

- Manfred Grund – 38.0%

Personal life

Grund is a member of the

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. He and his wife reside in Heiligenstadt, Thuringia.

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