Dieter Henning (born 5 June 1936 in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

; died 13 December 2007 in

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

) 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 extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

, Henning worked as a research assistant at the

Technical University of Clausthal The Clausthal University of Technology (german: Technische Universität Clausthal, also referred to as TU Clausthal or TUC) is an institute of technology ('' Technische Universität'') in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany. The small publ ...

. 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

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 of extracting rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a borrow. This form of mining ...

. 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

Senftenberg Senftenberg ( wen, Zły Komorow) is a town in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany, capital of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district. Geography Senftenberg is located in the southwest of the historic Lower Lusatia region at the border with Saxony. It ...

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

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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

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

* 2000:

Georg Agricola Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Pawer or 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 Emp ...

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 (german: Technische Universität Clausthal, also referred to as TU Clausthal or TUC) is an institute of technology ('' Technische Universität'') in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany. The small publ ...

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