- Jun- 2018 -13 JuneNews in Brief 03_2018
In Memoriam Werner Trümpelmann
Werner Trümpelmann (Figure 1) was born 125 years ago on 17th October 1892 as the son of factory director Otto Trümpelmann in Düsseldorf/Germany. After completing his secondary school examinations in 1911, he was accepted as a mining apprentice at the Zollverein coal mine industrial complex, in the district of Ost-Essen.…
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Obituary // Prof. (em.) Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c. Walter Knissel
Prof. (em.) Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c. Walter Knissel died on 20th March 2018 in Bad Gandersheim at the age of 83. The sad news of his passing gives us cause to look back on his life, which was so closely linked to mining here in Germany and around the world. He was…
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BAUER
For three decades, Johann Mesch was at the top of Bauer Umwelt and, since 2010, of BAUER Resources GmbH, Schrobenhausen/Germany. On 1st April 2018, he left his post and since then Peter Hingott (chair) und Roman Breuer have formed the new dual leadership.
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BEUMER
On 1st January 2018, Amir Reza Sinai was appointed as the new managing director of the BEUMER Group Co., Ltd., based in Bangkok/Thailand. The subsidiary, which has 59 employees, acts as the BEUMER Group’s regional headquarters in South East and East Asia, where it covers the divisions Conveying & Loading…
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RAG
In the summer of 2018, Prof. Martin Junker will be leaving RAG AG in Essen/Germany. As of May 2018, Manfred Müller has been appointed Managing Director of RAG Mining Solutions, while also upholding his managerial duties at RAG Verkauf GmbH.
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RAG-Stiftung
At the regular meeting of the RAG-Stiftung, Essen/Germany, board of trustees on 9th May 2018, Bernd Tönjes was, as expected, unanimously elected as the new Chairman of the Board of Executives for RAG-Stiftung for a five-year term. He succeeds Werner Müller, who, as he announced on 28th February 2018, on…
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RWE
At the start of April, Hartmut Frank, who has been managing the Ibbenbüren coal power station since 2004, took on the additional role of manager of Lingen gas power station. Both power stations belong to RWE Generation SE, Essen/Germany. The previous manager of the Lingen power station, Hans-Peter Fricke, is…
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Shell
On 1st May 2018, Gretchen Watkins, former CEO of Maersk Oil, made the move to Royal Dutch Shell. At the company’s base in The Hague/Netherlands, she will take over the duties of Greg Guidry, current Executive Vice President of Unconventionals, on 1st July 2018. At the end of this year,…
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Thyssengas
Pipeline network operator Thyssengas GmbH, Dortmund/Germany, has appointed Jörg Kamphaus as its Commercial Director with effect from 1st July 2018. He succeeds Bernd Dahmen, who will enter into retirement on 30th June 2018.
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