Background
JUNGHANNS, Ulrich was born on May 25, 1956 in Gera.
JUNGHANNS, Ulrich was born on May 25, 1956 in Gera.
Teaching certificate, 1974. Academy for State and Law, Potsdam, Diploma in National Economy, 1986.
From 2002 till 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 1990 Junghanns was elected as the deputy chairman of the DBD and shortly after that became the acting chairman of the party.
In 1990 he was elected to the board of the Christian Democratic Union organisation in Brandenburg and as chairman of the Christian Democratic Union faction in the Landtag.
In 2007 he follow Jörg Schönbohm as chairman of the Brandenburg Christian Democratic Union, but resign from this post after the electoral defeat of the Christian Democratic Union in the 2008 Local Elections in Brandenburg.
Protestant
In 1974 he joined the Democratic Farmers" Party of Germany (DBD), a satellite party of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
In September 1990 the DBD fused with the Christian Democratic Union and until 1992 Junghanns was member of the board of the German Christian Democratic Union. From 1990 till 1998 Junghanns was a member of the Bundestag and chairman of the Brandenburg delegacy in the Christian Democratic Union faction.