Ulrich Junghanns

Ulrich Junghanns
Junghanns in 2004
Member of the Landtag of Brandenburg
In office 2004–2008
Member of the Bundestag
In office 1990–1998
Member of the City Council of Frankfurt (Oder)
In office 1994–2002
Leader of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany
In office 1990–1990
Preceded by	Günther Maleuda
Succeeded by	position abolished
Personal details
Born	(1956-05-25) 25 May 1956 Gera, Thuringia, German Democratic Republic
Political party	Christian Democratic Union (1990–) Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (1974–1990)
Profession	Politician
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit (1988)
Military Service
Allegiance	German Democratic Republic
Service / branch	National People's Army
Years of service	1974–1976

Ulrich Junghanns (born 25 May 1956 in Gera, Thuringia) is a German politician. From 2002 to 2008, he was Minister of Economy in the German state of Brandenburg and deputy Minister-President from 2007 till 2008.

Junghanns went to a Polytechnic Secondary School and later became an apprentice at the national stud farm at Moritzburg. In 1986, he graduated from a correspondence course of State sciences. In 1974, he joined the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (DBD), a satellite party of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1990, Junghanns was elected as the deputy chairman of the DBD and shortly after that became the acting chairman of the party. In September 1990, the DBD fused with the CDU and until 1992 Junghanns was member of the board of the German Christian Democratic Union.

In 1990, he was elected to the board of the CDU organisation in Brandenburg and as chairman of the CDU faction in the Landtag. From 1990 to 1998, Junghanns was a member of the Bundestag and chairman of the Brandenburg delegacy in the CDU faction. In 2007, he followed Jörg Schönbohm as chairman of the Brandenburg CDU, but resigned from this post after the electoral defeat of the CDU in the 2008 Local Elections in Brandenburg.

Decorations

• Order of Merit of the German Democratic Republic