About us

GMT
A powerful Team

Get to know our Board of Directors and our Advisory Board

Our Objectives

The GMT was founded in 1983. As a non-profit association the GMT represents the interests of companies and research institutions in the area of marine technology towards the public and policy makers.

The GMT is supporting the networking of its members from industry and science in order to initiate national and international research and development projects.
We support our members regarding the development of innovative products and services.
The GMT will support its members to open up new market segments in Germany and abroad.
Our members benefit from the thematic GMT-working groups which are established upon demand and interest, and which are moderated by industry experts and board members.
The members' information exchange also is promoted by the event "Meet the Members" and the monthly GMT Regular’s Table.
The GMT carries out periodically events with its members on topics of maritime engineering.
For the benefit of its members, the GMT organizes joint stands at selected national and international trade fairs and conferences.

Board of Directors

Our board members are working in marine technology companies or scientific institutions and are volunteers in supporting GMT with their qualifications and experience.

soeren.ehlers@marine-technology.eu

Prof. DSc. Sören Ehlers

Chairman

Sören Ehlers, D.Sc.(Tech.) is the director of the DLR Institute for maritime energy systems and professor at the Hamburg University of Technology.

mahnke@marine-technology.eu

Managing Director and Vice Chairwoman

Petra Mahnke is certified oceanographer and vice chairman of GMT since 2006.

kuehnlein@marine-technology.eu
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Dr. Walter Kühnlein

Vice Chairman

Dr. Walter Kühnlein is CEO of terra.blue and member of the board of GMT since 2005.

engelmann@marine-technology.eu
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Lars Engelmann

Lars Engelmann is a senior project manager specialising in innovation management and maritime logistics for offshore wind energy, hydrogen and infrastructure projects.

kueper@marine-technology.eu
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Klaus Küper

Klaus Küper is CO at Tiefsee GmbH & Co. and he is head of the department Research | Forschungsschifffahrt of Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG, Leer (Ostfriesland), Niedersachsen, Germany.

knodt@marine-technology.eu
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Dr. Steffen Knodt is the founder of Deepblue Earth in Aachen and a member of the German Ocean Decade Committee. His consulting focus is on the Sustainable Blue Economy as well as technology and business development for the sustainable use of the ocean. Dr. Steffen Knodt has been on the GMT board since 2014.

stender@marine-technolgy.eu
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Manfred Stender

Manfred Stender is

Business Development Manager

at Fugro Germany Marine GmbH in Bremen.

rauschenbach@marine-technology.eu

Prof. Dr. Thomas Rauschenbach

Prof. Dr. Thomas Rauschenbach is director of the Applied Systems Technology (AST) division in Ilmenau of the Fraunhofer IOSB and honorary professor for modeling, prediction and diagnosis of technical systems at the Technical University of Ilmenau.

sauter@marine-technology.eu

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sauter

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sauter is director of technology transfers at Alfred-Wegener institute.

turla@marine-technology.eu

Torsten Turla

Torsten Turla is chairman of MacArtney Germany GmbH.

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board advises the Executive Board in the strategic orientation of GMT activities.

It is formed of representatives of the coastal states and authorities, the maritime organizations, GMT members and guests from ministries (BMWi, BMVBS, BMBU) and members of the Bundestag.