Reinhard Grindel

Reinhard Grindel
Reinhard Grindel in 2013
Born	(1961-09-19) 19 September 1961 (age 55) Hamburg
Occupation	Journalist
Title	President of the German Football Association
Term	2016–present
Predecessor	Rainer Koch and Reinhard Rauball (acting)
Children	2

Reinhard Dieter Grindel (born 19 September 1961 in Hamburg) is a German journalist, politician (CDU) and football administrator.

From 2002 to 2016 Grindel was member of the Bundestag (Lower Chamber of the German Parliament). On 15 April 2016 he was elected president of the German Football Association (DFB) and resigned as member of parliament.

Grindel was born in Hamburg where he also went to school and studied law after obtaining a grant from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

After his studies he worked as a journalist for radio and television. From 1997 to 1999 he headed the ZDF studio in Bonn, from 1999 to 2002 that in Brussels.

He is married and has two sons.

Grindel became a member of the CDU in 1977. He was then active in the Young Union and belonged to the state board in Hamburg from 1979 to 1985. From 1981 to 1987, he was also a member of the CDU district Board Hamburg-Eimsbüttel. From 1982 to 1988, he was deputy of the local district assembly.

Grindel was a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2016. He has moved through the national list Lower Saxony to the Bundestag in 2002 and 2005. In the 2009 election, he won the constituency Rotenburg I - Soltau-Fallingbostel. In the 17th legislature, he was a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs.

In 2013 federal elections, Grindel won his constituency. In the 18th legislative term he was deputy chairman of the Sports Committee. In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the elections, he was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on integration and migration, led by Maria Böhmer and Aydan Özoğuz.