Raimund Grafe

Director of the Erich Zeigner Haus, a Leipzig-based center for democracy and remembrance culture

Raimund Grafe is the director of the Erich Zeigner Haus in Leipzig, Germany.

Prior to his retirement, Raimund was director of the State Offices of two German Federal States in Berlin. Before that, he served as Chief of Staff of Saxony’s Minister of Economics and as Specialist in the Saxony State Legislature.

Following German reunification in 1990, he worked at the U.S. Consulate in his hometown of Leipzig.

In 1988/89, he was a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

Raimund grew up in India from 1961 to 1975. After graduating from the prestigious Kodaikanal International School in South India, he returned to Germany and studied political science and economics at the University of Munich and Sciences Po in Paris.