Martin Herrenknecht
German engineer and businessman (born 1942) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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