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* August 9, 1936 in Thaldorf near Eisleben
† July 5, 2024

In 1960, Reinhardt Jünemann graduated from Dresden Technical University with a degree in mechanical engineering. One year later, he fled from the GDR to West Germany. There he worked for Bayer AG, among others, until he received his doctorate in engineering from TU Berlin in 1970. Two years later, he was appointed professor at the Department of Production Engineering (now the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) at the University of Dortmund, where he took over the FLW chair.
Here he set new standards for logistics. Ten years later, he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Among other things, he co-founded the Dortmund Technology Park in 1984. In 1995, Prof. Jünemann received the NRW State Prize from Minister President Johannes Rau. He recognized Jünemann's merit in having “found a peaceful definition for logistics”, namely “as the scientific study of the planning, control and monitoring of material, personnel, energy and information flows in companies”. Jünemann became emeritus professor in 2001. His implemented projects and impulses can be found here on all pages.
However, his career was far from over when he retired. In the same year, Jünemann took over the management of Projekt Ruhr GmbH. In 2005, he turned the city of Hamm into a university city by providing the impetus for the founding of the private SRH University of Applied Sciences for Logistics and Business, which offered the first Bachelor's degree course in logistics in Germany and of which he was the founding rector.

Further links:
Wikipedia on Reinhardt Jünemann / DeWiki encyclopedia on R. Jünemann
Logistics Hall of Fame Reinhardt Jünemann and obituary on his death

“The logistics mission is to provide
the right quantity of the right objects as objects of logistics, at the right place, in the right quality, at the right time, at the right cost.”

His 1989 book “Material Flow and Logistics” is also known in logistics circles as the red bible. This book put logistical thinking and action into words on a scale never seen before. Of course, Prof. Jünemann has written many other books and publications that have advanced logistics.