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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.

Christian Brennig and Valeska Gottke were appointed as Technology and Standards Officer and Communications and Markets Officer respectively at the German Energy Storage Association (BVES) in Berlin in the summer of 2017.

Stephan Temming has been working for Daldrup & Söhne AG, based in Ascheberg/Germany, as an expert in finance, controlling and business development since 1st July 2017.

Ursula Heinen-Esser was appointed Commercial Director at the Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Bau und Betrieb von Endlagern für Abfallstoffe mbH (German Association for the Construction and Operation of Permanent Storage Sites for Waste Pro-ducts – DBE), based in Peine/Germany, on 7th August 2017. She holds that position in addition to her activity as Chairperson of the Executive Board of the Bundesgesellschaft für ...

DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG in Hamburg/Germany has announced that Maria Moraeus Hanssen has been appointed as their new Chairperson of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Her appointment is expected to come into force in January 2018, when Maria Moraeus Hanssen will succeed Thomas Rappuhn. He will step down after 30 years with the company, including twelve years on ...

At its annual meeting on 16th May 2017 the German association for refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pumps (Zentralverband Kälte Klima Wärmepumpen – ZVKKW), elected Meinolf Gringel as Vice-President. Gringel is a publicly appointed and sworn expert for technical refrigeration systems and manages the Testing Body for Refrigerating, Heating & Air Conditioning Engineering at DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Essen/Germany.

Wulf Bernotat, former Chairperson of the Board at E.ON SE, based in Essen/Germany, passed away on 27th August 2017 at the age of 68 after a long illness. He was Chairperson of the Board at E.ON from May 2003 to 2010 and succeeded Ulrich Hartman and Wilhelm Simson in that role. As Chairperson of the Board, Bernotat significantly shaped the ...

Markus Masuth was appointed Chairperson of the Executive Board at RAG Montan Immobilien GmbH, a subsidiary of RAG Aktiengesellschaft based in Essen/Germany, on 1st October 2017. He succeeds Prof. Hans-Peter Noll, who has assumed the same position at the Zollverein foundation. Following a career in several RAG mines, from 2008 onwards Masuth had been the Head of the Prosper coke ...