Hans M. Gietl was born in Tübingen on November 20, 1966. He studied supply engineering at the University of Applied Sciences for Technology in Esslingen, graduating with a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) in 1991. From 1992 to 1996, he worked as a project engineer in an engineering office for swimming pool technology in Vaterstetten near Munich. From 1996 to 1999, he gained international experience while working as a senior technical employee in a hospital in Ghana (West Africa).
From 2000, Mr. Gietl initially worked as a project manager at RCI GmbH, where he was appointed branch manager of the Bretten site near Karlsruhe in 2009. He has been Managing Director of FC-Planung GmbH, Bretten, since 2017.