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]

References

  1. ↑ "History - Herrenknecht AG". www.herrenknecht.com. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Kennzahlen der Herrenknecht AG". Archived from the original on 2012-06-25. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
  3. ↑ Martin Herrenknecht Archived 2016-08-22 at the Wayback Machine CitySolutions2012
  4. ↑ Martin-W. Buchenau: Der Herr der Röhren. In: Handelsblatt, Nr. 200, 16. October 2010, S. 62.
  5. ↑ "Werner-von-Siemens-Ring für Tunnelpionier" (in German). Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ Dietmar Neuerer: Möglicher Interessenkonflikt: Mappus, S-21 und die „Spätzle-Connection“. In: Handelsblatt, 11. October 2010.
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