Dipl.-Ing. Werner Burger, Head of Engineering and Member of the Traffic Tunnelling Executive Board in the Herrenknecht Group.
As the head of the engineering department for 27 years he has been responsible for new and further development of tunnel boring machines in the Traffic Tunnelling Business Unit (Ø> 4.80 m) at Herrenknecht AG. Werner Burger studied mechanical engineering from 1978 to 1982 at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He began his professional career as a development engineer at an international automotive supplier. In 1985 the entrepreneur Martin Herrenknecht brought him to the company Herrenknecht.