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Place of Birth: Lahr/Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Martin Herrenknecht
- Martin Herrenknecht (born June 24, 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.
- They have 4955 employees as of 2015.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.
- In 2010, his company drilled the largest tunnel in the world.
- He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union.He received the Werner von Siemens Ring in 2015.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.
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