On 13th August 2019, Kerstin Andreae was appointed by the Chair of the Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e. V. (BDEW), Berlin/Germany, to become the new Chair of the Executive Management Board. The economics graduate will take over as Chair of the sector association on 1st November 2019. Andreae is currently the economic spokesperson of the German Federal BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN ...

At the annual conference on 5th July, the Chairman of the DFK – Verband für Fach- und Führungskräfte e.V., Essen/Germany, Thomas Goldschmidt, announced his retirement after many years‘ service. His successor is Michael Krekels.

The Fachverband Dampfkessel Behälter u. Rohrleitungsbau e. V. (FDBR), Düsseldorf/Germany, is launching a comprehensive realignment, which is accompanied by a change of management. Martin G. Eckert, who has been active in political lobbying in Berlin in the field of energy technology for many years, succeeds Reinhard Maaß, who is leaving the specialist association and all associated committees after over 20 years ...

innogy SE’s Head of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Gerwig Koch, is leaving the company based in Essen/Germany, by the middle of 2020 on his own request. Koch was one of the key figures on the part of innogy SE in the planned E.ON/RWE-transaction. A business graduate and former investment banker, Koch has led, strategically directed and implemented mergers & acquisition ...

On 1st August 2019, Werner Grigo became Director of the newly-created central unit of Permit Management at RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany. Grigo previously worked as a head officer in the area of Mining Sustainability in the Arnsberg District Government.

After nearly 47 years in the SCHACHTBAU NORDHAUSEN GmbH, Nordhausen/Germany, 26 of those as Managing Director, Juergen Staeter had taken his retirement and handed over the role of Chairman of the Management Board to Michael Seifert on 1st September 2019, who has been with the SCHACHTBAU Group for 27 years and became a member of the Management Board in July ...

As of 1st August 2019, Jean-Pierre Sbraire is Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee at Total S. A., Courbe-voie/France, following Patrick de La Chevardière’s retirement. As of 19th August 2019, Helle Kristoffersen is President, Strategy & Innovation and a Total Executive Committee member. The position was previously held by Philippe Sauquet, now focusing on his responsibilities as ...

Maria Moraeus Hanssen, COO and Deputy CEO of Wintershall Dea, Hamburg and Kassel, will leave the company on 31st December 2019 in order to pursue other opportunities. Until that time she will continue in her present role providing board-level leadership of the EMEA business units and the merger integration.

The State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia is to provide 14.5 M € of support for the development of the gate.ruhr industrial and commercial area on the site of the Auguste Victoria 3/7 mine in Marl/Germany, which was shut down in 2015. Prof. Andreas Pinkwart, State Minister of Economic Affairs for North Rhine-Westphalia, presented the grant notice to Werner Arndt, Mayor ...

Surveyors from the DMT GmbH & Co. KG specialist unit for fire safety, at the Centre for Fire and Explosion Safety have determined, following specific gas measurements at various locations on the Graf Moltke tip in Gladbeck/Germany, that “there is no evidence of health risks in the locality”. The DMT surveyors conducted specific gas readings on the Graf Moltke spoil ...