Staff News 03_2015

Matthias Zelinger became energy policy spokes­man for the German Engineering Association (VDMA) in Frankfurt am Main on 1 March 2015.  He is also continuing in his role as managing director of VDMA Power Systems.

Dr Helmar Rendez, chairman of the management board at Stromnetz Berlin GmbH, will become a member of the management board at Vattenfall Europe Mining & Generation AG in Cottbus on 1 July 2015. He will not be responsible for a specific division at first, but will take over finance on 1 October 2015, as current CFO Klaus Aha is retiring ...

The RAG Stiftung in Essen has two new members on its board of trustees: management consultant Monika Schulz-Strelow, who was appointed by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Heiko Maas, who was appointed by the state of Saarland. This brings the number of board members up to 14.

Dr Rainer Seele, currently chairman of the board of executive directors at Wintershall Holding GmbH in Kassel, will become the new CEO of OMV in Vienna/Austria on 1 July 2015. He is taking over from Gerhard Roiss, who will be leaving the company.

Ulrich Meesmann, Member of the Board of Directors of the German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the Raw Materials and Chemical Industry (BG RCI), Heidelberg/Germany, was voted president. His term will begin 1 April 2016, when current ISSA Mining President Theodor Bülhoff will retire. Cristian Moraga Torres, General Manager of Mutual de Seguridad CChC, Chile, was voted ISSA Mining Vice ...

Marco Nix will become the new CFO of transmission system operator 50Hertz in Berlin on 1 July 2015. He will take over from Udo Giegerich, who is leaving the company.

Robert Kloos, state secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), has been elected chairman of the Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe (agency for renewable resources) in Gülzow-Prüzen. His deputy is Clemens Neumann, head of the BMEL’s bio-based economy, sustainable agriculture and forestry department.

Michael Heidkemper will assume responsibility for the sales division on the board of management at EWE AG in Oldenburg in autumn 2015. His predecessor is Matthias Brückmann, who is replacing Dr Werner Brinker as CEO in October. Ines Kolmsee took over from Brinker as head of the technology division (which includes generation and infrastructure) on 1 May 2015.

The European Network of Transmission System Operators (Entso-E) elected Peder Andreasen, CEO of Denmark’s transmission system operator Energinet.dk, as its new president during its assembly in March. He will take office on 28 June 2015 and replaces Nick Winser, CEO of the UK’s National Grid.

Klaus Barthel, an SDP member of the German Bundestag, is the new chair of the advisory council at the German Federal Network Agency in Bonn. He replaced Dr Joachim Pfeiffer of the CDU, who stepped down from office in line with an agreement reached between the coalition partners.