Gender Male
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg was born on May 12, 1950 in Herne (North Rhine-Westphalia).After studying mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Ulrich Hackenberg was active as an assistant at the Automotive Institute from 1978 until 1985. Among other tasks, he was head of the vehicle dynamics research area, developed the motorcycle lecture
and gained his doctorate in 1985 on the stability behavior of the “driver-motorcycle-road” system.In 1985 Prof. Dr. Hackenberg joined AUDI AG, where in 1989 he was put in charge of Concept Definition and later took over the technical project management of the entire product range.This included the models Audi 80, A3, A4, A6, A8, TT and A2, as well as numerous concept studies and show cars, the technical conception of the platform strategy and the development of a simultaneous-engineering structure.