Grün

Grün, the German word for green, may refer to:

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 [http://www.hohenfels.army.mil military training area] of Hohenfels, Bavaria

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

Companies

* Gruen watch, American watch company

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")
** Warriors of Grün (a fictional fantasy movie in an episode of King Of Queens

See also

* Grin, Green