Mandy Gieler was born on 14 October 1987 in Dernau and comes from a family that who have worked in viticulture for several generations as a secondary occupation. The family vineyard has an area of one hectare and is mainly stocked with pinot noir (Spätburgunder).
Education and training
From 1994 to 1998, Mandy Gieler went to St. Martin's Primary School in Dernau and then, from 2007, to the private grammar school of the Ursulines, the Calvarienberg, in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. In the winter semester of 2007, she began studying chemistry with materials science at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (BRSU), which she interrupted during her time as a wine queen. Immediately after the end of her "reign" she resumed studies in October 2011 at the University of Münster with the aim of completing her master's degree in industrial chemistry.