Grünberg

Grünberg or Gruenberg (German for green mountain) may refer to:

Places
  • Grünberg, Hesse, a town in Hesse
  • Grünberg (St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen), a part of Sankt Bernhard-Frauenhofen, Austria
  • Grünberg, Silesia, the German name for Zielona Góra, Poland
  • Grünberg, a part of Leopoldshagen, Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania
  • Grünberg, a part of Ottendorf-Okrilla, Saxony

Grünberg is the German surname of:

  • Alfred Grünberg, a worker, a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime
  • Carl Grünberg (1861–1940), founder of the Archiv für die Geschichte des Sozialismus und der Arbeiterbewegung (Archive for the history of socialism and workers movement) (1911–1930)
  • Erich Gruenberg (b. 1924), British violinist
  • Gottfried Grünberg (1899–1985), member of Gruppe Sobottka and temporary minister of defence of the GDR
  • Grethe Grünberg (* 1988), ice dancer
  • Hans-Bernhard von Grünberg, rector
  • Hans-Ulrich Grünberg (* 1956), German chess player
  • Isak Grünberg (1897–1953), Austrian translator and writer
  • Karl Grünberg (1891–1972), German writer and journalist
  • Klaus Grünberg (* 1941), German actor
  • Louis Gruenberg, composer
  • Martin Grünberg (1655–1706), architect
  • Matthias Grünberg (* 1961), president of Sozialgericht court of law Dresden
  • Max Gruenberg (born 1943), American politician
  • Peter Grünberg (born 1939), German physicist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Theodor Koch-Grünberg (1872–1924), ethnologist
  • Theodor Grünberg, father of Peter, died in Czech imprisonment 27 November 1945
  • Sven Grünberg, an Estonian ambient and progressive rock composer and musician
  • Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg (1898–1989), scientist

Other people with variants of this surname include:

  • Arnon Grunberg, a Dutch writer
  • Greg Grunberg, a television actor
  • Jack J. Grynberg
  • Markus Grünberger, a goalkeeper currently playing for Bayern Munich reserve team