Prof. Hans Carsten Runge, Ph.D. (Eng.)

Biography

  • Born July 12, 1925, in Göttingen
  • Attended school in Celle
  • After turning 18 in 1943, served two years as a soldier in the war (as a tank gunner in Normandy and, finally, spent three months as a prisoner of the Americans)
  • Studied mining engineering at the Clausthal University of Mining and Technology; graduated in 1950
  • Subsequently worked as a deposit engineer and later as plant manager—today one would say district manager—at the Brigitta mining company in Steimbke near Nienburg/Weser
  • Married Monika Gallasch in 1955; two sons
  • Employed by the Royal/Dutch Shell Group since 1956
  • Initially spent one year as a production engineer in The Hague
  • Then six years with Shell Indonesia, about half of which as Senior Production Engineer and half as Exploration and Production Manager
  • Then three years as Chief Petroleum Engineer at Shell/BP Petroleum Development Co. in Nigeria
  • Subsequently Director of the Shell/Esso Study Group for Natural Gas Issues in Frankfurt am Main
  • Since 1966, Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Shell AG, Hamburg
    • Responsibilities: Exploration and production in Germany and abroad
      • Natural gas transportation, natural gas distribution
      • Imported coal business, coal gasification
    • Board of Supervisors positions: BEB
      • Brigitta Trade Union
      • Elwerath Union
      • Thyssengas GmbH
      • Deutsche Erdgas Transport GmbH (DETG)
  • 1983: Awarded a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) from Clausthal University of Technology; thesis topic: "Investigation of the key technical and economic factors in long-distance natural gas transmission and their impact on the further development of international natural gas utilization"
  • Since 1970, ten scientific publications, some in collaboration with other authors
  • Since 1982, lecturer on "Long-Distance Natural Gas Transmission" at the ITE, Clausthal University of Technology
  • Retired from Deutsche Shell AG in September 1983
  • Subsequently, consulting contract with the Jülich Nuclear Research Facility, particularly regarding the development of innovative systems for the use of fossil energy resources Also
    worth mentioning here are his roles on the board of the Association of Friends of Clausthal University of Technology, in the German National Committee for the World Petroleum Congresses, and in the Rotary Club Hamburg-Altona
  • Hans Carsten Runge is a member of the CDU