Please note that the content of this book mainly consists of articles that are available online from Wikipedia or other free sources. Achim Grossmann (April 17, 1947, in Aachen) is a German politician (SPD). He served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development from 1998 to 2009, and from 2005 as Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development. After graduating from high school in 1966 at Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen, Grossmann studied psychology at the Technical University of Aachen, which he completed in 1972 as a Diplom-Psychologe. He then worked as an educational consultant at the counseling center for parents, children, and adolescents in Alsdorf until 1986, serving as its director since 1979. In parallel, he worked for several semesters as a lecturer in administrative psychology at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Aachen.