Martin Herrenknecht Explained

Martin Herrenknecht (born 24 June 1942) is a German engineer and businessman. He founded an engineering company in 1975, which became Herrenknecht AG in 1977. Today his company makes large, heavy tunnel boring machines.^[1] They have 4955 employees as of 2015.^[2]

Herrenknecht is the son of an upholsterer in Schwanau, Baden-Württemberg. He graduated from Max Planck Gymnasium and studied at the University of Constance, earning an engineering degree in 1964.^[3] In 2010, his company drilled the largest tunnel in the world. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union.^[4]

He received the Werner von Siemens Ring in 2015.^[5]

He has caused some controversy in his Stuttgart 21 development project. The Green politician Winfried Hermann accused him of having too close a relationship with Lothar Späth.^[6]

External links

• PBS Video on Germany which features Herrenknecht

Notes and References

1. Web site: History - Herrenknecht AG. www.herrenknecht.com. August 3, 2016.
2. Web site: Kennzahlen der Herrenknecht AG . 2016-08-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120625011716/http://www.herrenknecht.de/herrenknecht-ag/unternehmensportrait/herrenknecht-in-zahlen.html . 2012-06-25 . dead .
3. http://citysolutions2012.com/en/spikers/herrenknecht/ Martin Herrenknecht
4. Martin-W. Buchenau: Der Herr der Röhren. In: Handelsblatt, Nr. 200, 16. October 2010, S. 62.
5. Web site: Werner-von-Siemens-Ring für Tunnelpionier. German. August 3, 2016.
6. Dietmar Neuerer: Möglicher Interessenkonflikt: Mappus, S-21 und die „Spätzle-Connection“. In: Handelsblatt, 11. October 2010.