Herbert Grönemeyer
Herbert Grönemeyer (born April 12, 1956, Göttingen, Germany), aged 70, is a German singer, musician and actor (born 1956). Grönemeyer is best known for Mensch. Grönemeyer's honours include German Radio Award, Amadeus Austrian Music Awards and Echo Pop Award for the Best National Rock/Pop Male Artist.
Herbert Grönemeyer’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Herbert
Herbert Grönemeyer’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Herbert in the U.S.?
#2656
US rank in 2025
~229,383
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,397 American boys and 8 girls named Herbert in 1956: 137th among boys and 4,597th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Herbert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on H (8) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Herbert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1956, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Herbert apart
The record Herbert Grönemeyer is measured by: Mensch.
The schooling ran through Gymnasium am Ostring.
Herbert Grönemeyer was 22 when the work began in 1978.
Herbert Grönemeyer was born to Hella-Carin von Hunnius and Wilhelm Grönemeyer and married Anna Henkel.
Wikipedia files Herbert Grönemeyer under Male actors from Lower Saxony, Actors from Göttingen and Musicians from Göttingen.
Andy Garcia shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Mensch
- Educated at
- Gymnasium am Ostring
- Instruments
- guitar, piano and voice
- Awards
- German Radio Award (2011), Echo Pop Award for the Best Live Act (2012) and Echo Pop Award for the Hit of the Year (2003)
- Working from
- 1978
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- German and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 35
What the chart says
Herbert, according to the stars
Core essence
Herbert leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Herbert is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Herbert is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Herbert needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Herbert wants to be loved
Herbert wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Herbert like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Herbert creates
How Herbert makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Herbert creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Herbert is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Herbert is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Herbert leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Herbert does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Herbert's birth date. Working below.
Where Herbert sits
Six lines
Herbert’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Herbert Grönemeyer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Göttingen on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Göttingen that night
Computed for 51.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Göttingen was Merak, in Ursa Major, 80.4° up.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Göttingen at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 4% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.
How unusual Herbert's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · 2 planets at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Herbert Grönemeyer's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 12, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Herbert Grönemeyer was born on April 12, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Herbert Grönemeyer's birth date, April 12, 1956, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Herbert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herbert Grönemeyer's date-only chart is Mars opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Herbert Grönemeyer combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Herbert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.3° orb
Herbert’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Herbert’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.2° to 2.3° orb
Herbert’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareMars0.4° to 1.8° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter0.5° to 1.5° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune0.5° to 1.2° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.0° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto2.2° to 4.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Herbert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 11°04′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 20°30′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 28°34′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 24°53′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 14°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Mars 0.2°
- Eros opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Eros square Neptune 0.7°
- Eros square Mercury 0.9°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.4°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.9°
Herbert’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun8 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 6 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Herbert’s chart
Grand cross · Mercury, Neptune, Mars, UranusTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.- Grand cross · Mars, Uranus, Sun, NeptuneTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 2.1°
Born the same day as Herbert
Andy Garcia was born on April 12, 1956 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 51.5°N, Göttingen keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Herbert
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Born in Germany
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on April 12
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Yves MontandFrench-Italian actor and singer
- Michael BiehnAmerican actor
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Other Aries Monkey charts
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Other Steadfast Strategists
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Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Herbert’s cards
Computed from April 12, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Herbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q275247 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Herbert Grönemeyer’s chart
- How old is Herbert Grönemeyer?
- Herbert Grönemeyer is 70 years old, born April 12, 1956 in Göttingen, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Herbert Grönemeyer?
- Herbert Grönemeyer is an Aries: born April 12, 1956, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Herbert Grönemeyer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 12, 1956 birth.
- What is Herbert Grönemeyer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Herbert Grönemeyer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Herbert Grönemeyer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Herbert Grönemeyer's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
