New wind for Wiesbaden: Prof. Dr. Ute Knippenberger takes over SEG!
New wind for Wiesbaden: Prof. Dr. Ute Knippenberger takes over SEG!
On March 25, 2025, the city of Wiesbaden announced that Prof. Dr. Ute Knippenberger will be the new managing director of the SEG Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft Wiesbaden mbH. Your order comes into force on September 1 and is initially considered for three years. Knippenberger will take over the position of Andreas Guntrum, who will leave at the end of the year.
Prof. Dr. Ute Knippenberger has an impressive professional career. The doctor of graduates and architect has many years of experience in municipal urban planning and in academic teaching. She has been teaching at the Faculty of Economics and Law of the Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences for four years, where she is responsible for the areas of Smart City and sustainable real estate project development.
academic and professional background
Knippenberger studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and then completed the international doctoral program for European urban studies. She wrote her dissertation at the Bauhaus University in Weimar in 2011. In working with the title "Regional governance of the functional change of airports", she analyzed the "Airport City" Frankfurt am Main. Your research focuses on social science aspects of urban research, especially room conflicts.
Before she switched to the Aschaffenburg Technical University, she worked in management positions in public urban planning over a decade. Most recently, she headed the Department for Urban Development in the Wiesbaden city planning office and previously worked as a department head in Kronberg in Taunus. Knippenberger developed comprehensive knowledge of the administrative processes and urban development tasks at the municipal level, especially in Wiesbaden.
preparation for the future
In her new role, Knippenberger will deal with the challenges of urban development in the context of progressive digitization. According to the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB), municipalities are required to shape digitization sustainably and in the sense of the common good. There are initiatives such as the "National Dialogue platform Smart Cities" that aim to promote an exchange about the opportunities and risks of digitization at the local level.Knippenberger gratefully commented on the magistrate and the SEG supervisory board for the trust they have placed in them after ordering. Her focus in the previous work will help her actively shape the urban development of Wiesbaden. The comprehensive support of initiatives such as the "Smart City Charter" and the promotion of model projects on the part of the federal government illustrate the importance of this role for future development.
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