Hans Hundegger

Hans Hundegger

Hans Hundegger (born July 17, 1954 in Hawangen ) is a German entrepreneur. He built up the mechanical engineering company Hundegger Maschinenbau GmbH, which manufactures machines for the woodworking industry, e.g. B. Joinery machines , cutting and planing machines as well as production lines for solid wood walls. In 1981 he designed a joinery machine, i. H. a computerized numerically controlled machine tool for marking and editing of timbers into constructive parts.

Life

Hundegger was born as the son of the farmers and sawmill owners Theresia and Josef Hundegger in Hawangen, located in the Unterallgäu district. He finished school in 1972 with secondary school leaving certificate and began an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman. After completing his apprenticeship, Hans Hundegger was initially employed in a carpentry machine factory. During this time he attended the technical school part-time. After work, he designed systems and equipment for his brother who wanted to modernize his parents' sawmill. Orders from other sawmill owners were added later.

Development of joinery systems

In 1978 Hundegger started his own business. The main field of work was the manufacture of systems and equipment for sawmills. In 1981 he was encouraged by a customer to develop a joinery machine .

Hundegger began with the construction of an under-table swivel miter saw with four degrees of freedom . Thereafter he developed the transport and positioning system, and then a milling machine for milling Kerven , pins and lap joints. At the same time, he started building a prototype of the P8 joinery machine, which was presented in 1984 and delivered a short time later. From 1986 the first “P8” joinery machine was built in series.

In the summer of 1996 the first compact joinery machine "K1" was presented, which for the first time was equipped with a universal milling machine with three tools and, as a compact and flexible machine, was able to meet the requirements. The joinery machine "K2" followed in 1999, a further development of the K1. In September 2002 the first house was built with the solid wood wall invented and patented by Hundegger. This invention is produced on a Hundegger machine production line specially designed for this purpose.

Awards

• 2003 Schweighofer Prize
• 2006 Hundegger Maschinenbau GmbH, Bavaria's Best 50

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Hundegger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bavaria's Best 50, 2006 winner

literature

• Target-oriented business process management to promote the profitability of beam processing centers. Doctoral thesis, Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Kassel, April 2002.
• Hermann Simon: Hidden Champions of the 21st Century. Campus Verlag, ISBN 3-593-38380-2 .
• Florian Langenscheidt: German standards world market leader. Gabler Verlag, ISBN 3-409-12660-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Schindler: An architectural periodization model based on manufacturing criteria, illustrated using the example of timber construction . Self-published, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-03302322-2 , p. 194 ( limited preview in the Google book search - thesis / dissertation).
2. ^ Schweighofer Prize, 2003 award winner
3. ↑ Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.