Hans-Dieter Künne

Hans-Dieter Künne (born March 3, 1930 in Emmerich ; † February 26, 2017 in Stuttgart ) was a German civil engineer and technical mayor of the city of Stuttgart.

Life

Künne studied civil engineering at the University of Hanover and then worked as a traffic and civil engineering engineer in Hameln . In 1958 he joined the city planning office of the city of Stuttgart, where he headed the transport planning department until 1969 and the Stuttgart general transport plan, which is still valid today, with a few adjustmentsdeveloped. In 1969 he was appointed the city's technical advisor as the successor to city director Karl Gauß, and was thus responsible for the traffic development and investment departments, the city measurement office, building construction office, civil engineering office and garden office, as well as the office for waste management and city cleaning. In January 1978, Künne was elected Technical Mayor and re-elected in 1985. During his term of office, important infrastructure measures such as the expansion of local public transport ( light rail , S-Bahn ), sewage facilities (including the expansion of the Ditzingen group sewage treatment plant ) and waste recycling are included. Under his aegis, 600 buildings, 18 kilometers of light rail tunnels and several road tunnels were built. The renovation of the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium also fell during his term of office . In 1977 he took over the planning management for the Federal Horticultural Show in Stuttgart and in 1993 for the International Horticultural Exhibition . At the end of his second term in office, he waived re-election and retired.

In 1962 Hans-Dieter Künne from the Technical University of Stuttgart Dr.-Ing. PhD. He was later a lecturer and honorary professor at the university that was promoted to university.

Awards

• 1990: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

Publications

• with Gerd Steierwald: road traffic planning . Basics, methods, goals . Berlin / Heidelberg 1994
• U-Bahn Stuttgart (= Stuttgart contributions 1). Stuttgart 1966
• The severity of traffic accidents as a function of vehicle weights, vehicle speeds and the angle of impact. A contribution to the assessment of the degree of danger of road traffic facilities with regard to the severity of the accident on the basis of a correlative investigation of practical accident surveys, combined with a contribution to the assessment of speed estimates . Diss., Bad Godesberg 1964

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The construction of the light rail was not a piece of cake . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, June 1, 2010.

Web links

• Obituary on the website of the City of Stuttgart , February 28, 2017