The current President of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), Wolfram König, has been appointed President of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BfE), Berlin/Germany, which was founded two years ago. Up to now, the BfE has been under the temporary leadership of Ewold Seeba, who is now moving to the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE), a federally owned company for the permanent storage of nuclear waste.