After graduating from high school, Hannes Schuerger completed his military service in a mountain troop armored infantry company and absolved an apprenticeship as a landscape gardener. Before studying environmental engineering and urban planning, he worked as a crew leader in a landscape construction company.

During his studies, he started his own business as a freelancer for landscape architecture and environmental consulting. He ended his studies with a German engineering degree and worked for a big engineering company.

After the German reunification, he advised many

municipalities in East Germany and became a specialist for the redevelopment and restructuring of East German industrial cores, especially in the chemical and energy industry, such as the Leuna site, with the construction of a new refinery and restructuring of the main industrial site of the GDR industry. Today, Leuna is the biggest industrial area in Germany, with an area of 13 square kilometers. Over the years, he made a career up to the CEO of this engineering company with several hundred employees and all different kinds of engineering and architectural divisions. Other industrial areas in Germany followed. He was also responsible for the legal supervision of the largest foreign industrial investment in Germany by Dow Chemical. The investment volume was 6 billion EUR.

In addition to the restructuring of industrial centers, he dedicated himself to municipal development and created new planning instruments and processes in order to better link the various departments and to reduce investment costs for the communities, while at the same time, improving the quality of life for the population.

As an investor and co-partner, he built the first waste to energy plant in Bavaria/Germany in the 1990s. The aim was to sort the biowaste of the municipalities regionally and to process it into electricity and fertilizer via the biogas process. He is still internationally active in this segment today.

This was followed by work in the development of major tourism and artistic edutainment projects for a world- renowned artist, for governments in Asia as well as in Europe.

However, he then became more and more interested in the commercialization of new technologies in the field of renewable energies, as well as water-, air- and soil protection, combined with digitalization and sensor technologies.

2019 he cofounded Elof Hansson Clean Tech GmbH (EHTC) in Munich, together with Elof Hansson International (EH) in Sweden. EH Sweden is a 120 year old traditional Swedish company with 36 offices worldwide - also in India. EHCT is developing economical sustainable solutions for countries in Africa or Middle Asia, using new technologies. They are active in waste to energy projects, solar parks and solar cell production, industrial developments and also in the agricultural sector for enabling new sustainable plantation systems for carbon capture/carbon credits and regional development.

Further activities actually are the commercialization of a new middle wind technology (80 – 400 kW), new construction materials for a circular economy (cradle to cradle), producing green fertilizer from waste residues over green hydrogen (to green urea) and the engagement in setting up logistics for the green hydrogen future by international consortiums in ports and industrial areas like Africa and Middle East or Latin America.

He is deeply convinced, that our new questions, appearing by climate change and political as security changes, can only be solved by creating new models and solutions, based on self-carrying sustainable business solutions in the transfer to a green global economy which is based on local potentials.