Dieter Henning (born 5 June 1936 in

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; died 13 December 2007 in

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) was a German engineer and chairman of the board of management of Rheinbraun AG from 1993 to 1999.

Biography

After studying

mining Mining is the Resource extraction, extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agriculture, agricultural processes, or feasib ...

, Henning worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Clausthal. In 1969, he received his doctorate there as Dr.-Ing. for his work on the influence of thermal pre-treatment on the shear strength of kaolin. In 1969, he started as a production engineer at the former Rheinbraun AG in the

Frechen Frechen (; Ripuarian: ''Frechem'') is a town in the Rhein-Erft District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Frechen was first mentioned in 877. It is situated at the western Cologne city border. It is the site of the 1257 Battle of Frechen betwee ...

opencast mine Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth. Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful ore or ro ...

. From 1977 to 1990, he was operations director of the Hambach opencast mine. He then moved to the new German states, where he was chairman of the board of Lausitzer Braunkohle AG in

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from 1990 to 1993. Then he moved to the board of management of Rheinbraun AG, where he was chairman of the board from 1993 to 1999. He was also a member of the executive board of RWE AG.

Awards

* 1993:

Honorary doctorate An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or '' ad hon ...

Dr.-Ing. h. c. from

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* 2000:

Georg Agricola Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, he was broa ...

memorial coin of the Society of Metallurgists and Miners * 2000: Honorary member of the Society of Metallurgists and Miners

Writings

* ''Untersuchungen über den Einfluß der wärmetechnischen Vorbehandlung auf die Schubfestigkeit von Kaolin''. Dissertation.

Clausthal University of Technology The Clausthal University of Technology (, also referred to as TU Clausthal or TUC) is an institute of technology ('' Technische Universität'') in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany. The small public university is regularly ranked amon ...

1969 * ''Im Vorfeld der Eifel – Der Aufschluß des Tagebaues Hambach''. In: ''Eifeljahrbuch''. Verlag des Eifelvereins, Düren 1979, pp. 69–76 * with Klaus Müllensiefen: ''Herstellung von Flächen für die forstwirtschaftliche Rekultivierung, dargestellt am Beispiel der Außenkippe Sophienhöhe und des Braunkohlentagebaus Hambach''. In: ''Braunkohle''. Issue 12, 1990, pp. 11–18. * ''Moderne Tagebautechnik und Rekultivierung''. In: ''Braunkohle''. Issue 12, 1991, pp. 16–19. * ''Kontinuierliche Tagebautechnik im Rheinischen Braunkohlenrevier''. In: ''Braunkohle''. Issue 8, 1995, pp. 14–25.

Literature

* Christoph Dieckmann: ''Die Zeit stand still, die Lebensuhren liefen. Geschichten aus der deutschen Murkelei''. Links, Berlin 1999, , p. 180ff. (limited preview in the Google book search).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Henning, Dieter RWE 1936 births 2007 deaths German mining engineers Engineers from Aachen Clausthal University of Technology alumni