Michael Riechel, Chair of the Thüga AG Management Board, has been elected the new President of the Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches (DVGW), Bonn/Germany.

Stefan Dohler, former CFO of Vattenfall AB, has been appointed Chair of the Board of Management by the Supervisory Board of EWE AG, Oldenburg/Germany. Dohler will take office at the earliest possible date and at the latest by 1st April 2018.

At the suggestion of the Russian government, former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was first appointed to the Supervisory Board of petroleum company Rosneft, Moscow/Russia, on 29th September 2017 and then elected Chair.

Thomas Gößmann replaced Axel Botzenhardt on 1st September 2017 as Chair of the Management Board of Thyssengas GmbH, Dortmund/Germany. He also holds the post of Commercial Director and is in charge of the company together with Bernd Dahmen.

Anna Borg succeeded Stefan Dohler on 1st November 2017 as the CFO of Vattenfall AB, Solna/Sweden. She was previously the director of the Markets business area.

VDMA Mining elected its new board of directors at its general meeting on 23rd November 2017. Michael Schulte Strathaus, F. E. Schulte Strathaus GmbH & Co. KG, Werl/Germany, was endorsed as Chairman. The additional board members: Honorary Chairman Peter Jochums, Hauhinco Maschinenfabrik G. Hausherr, Jochums GmbH & Co. KG, Sprockhövel/Germany, Corinna Both, CFT GmbH, Gladbeck/Germany, Torsten Gerlach, thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG, ...

The Shareholders’ Committee of Voith Management GmbH, Heidenheim/Germany, has decided on a successor for long-standing President of the Corporate Board of Management, Hubert Lienhard. Stephan Schaller, currently a member of the Voith Shareholders’ Committee and head of the BMW Group’s global motorcycle division, has been appointed as his successor. Lienhard, who has led the group since 2008, is planning to ...

Oil and gas group Wintershall, Kassel/Germany, has appointed Hugo Dijkgraaf Managing Director of its Norwegian subsidiary. He succeeds Bernd Schrimpf, who has retired.

Roughly two years ago, the Essen/Germany based RAG-Stiftung foundation, RAG AG and Evonik Industries AG collaborated with the IG BCE union, Hanover/Germany, to launch the “Glückauf Zukunft!” project, aiming to wind down the German coal mining industry by the end of 2018. The programme acknowledges the industry’s historical achievements while simultaneously setting a course for the era to come. The ...

The RAG site on the Shamrockring is to be converted to a residential and business district over the next few years. Essen-based FAKT AG has acquired the plot and is planning a large amount of development within the existing buildings at the 10 ha site in Herne/Germany. FAKT AG CEO Prof Hubert Schulte-Kemper announced this at a press conference in ...