Konrad Gehringer

{{short description|German inventor, mechanic, and bus driver}}

Konrad Gehringer (4 June 1939 – 12 December 2003){{Citation needed|date=July 2013}} was a German car mechanic and bus driver{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}} who had a one-man operation for producing electronic organs in Pforzheim, Germany.

Gehringer was best known as the inventor and developer of the one-man submersible Speleonaut, the first submarine designed for cave diving. The Speleonaut was designed in collaboration with Gehringer's friend, the cave diver Jochen Hasenmayer, who has used it since 1996 to explore the Blautopf cave system.{{cite news|url=http://www.zeit.de/1996/10/Der_Mann_im_Blautopf/komplettansicht|title=Der Mann im Blautopf|trans-title=The man in the Blautopf|last=Schnabel|first=Ulrich|journal=Die Zeit|issue=10|date=1 March 1996|language=German|accessdate=26 July 2013}}