Grün
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Grün, the German word for green, may refer to:
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[edit] Place
Grün as a name for a place may refer to:
- Grün (Vogtland), a former municipality, now quarter of Lengenfeld (Vogtland)
- Grün, the German name for the municipality Grône in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Grün, the German name of the village of Zelená Lhota, part of the municipality of Nýrsko in the Czech Republic
- Grün, a former village in the Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria, now part of the military training area of Hohenfels, Bavaria
[edit] People
Grün (transliterated Gruen) is the surname of:
- Anastasius Grün, pseudonym of Anton Alexander von Auersperg (1806-1876), Austrian poet and liberal politician
- Victor Gruen (1903-1980), an Austrian-born commercial architect who emigrated to the United States in 1938 and is the father of the modern American shopping mall
- Anselm Grün, a German Benedictine padre, author of spiritual books, and clerical advisor
- Arno Gruen, German psychologist and psychoanalyst
- Derek Gruen, the real name of musician Del Marquis, the lead guitarist for the group Scissor Sisters
- Dietrich Gruen, founder of the Gruen Watch Company
- Erich S. Gruen, a notable American classicist and ancient historian
- Fred Gruen, an Australian economist, an early and influential voice in favour of free trade and tariff reductions in the 1960s and 1970s
- Frederick G. Gruen, son of Dietrich Gruen, player in Gruen Watch Company
- George J. Gruen, son of Dietrich Gruen, player in the Gruen Watch Company
- Georges Grün, a former football defender and a TV presenter for the UEFA Champions League matches at RTL TVI
[edit] Companies
- Gruen watch, American watch company
[edit] Other
- Fall Grün, a pre-WWII German plan for an aggressive war against Czechoslovakia
- Gruene Hall, the oldest dance hall in Texas
- Gruen transfer, in shopping mall design, the moment when consumers respond to "scripted disorientation" cues in the environment
- Die Grünen, the name of several green parties:
- Alliance '90/The Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), a German party
- Austrian Green Party (Die Grünen)
- Green Party of Switzerland (Grüne Partei der Schweiz)
- Grun (a fictional fantasy movie in an episode of King Of Queens