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Rolf-Martin Schmitz has been the new Chairman of the Board of RWE AG. Essen/Germany, since 15th October. Markus Krebber was appointed Chief Financial Officer. Following the IPO of innogy SE, the former Chairman of the Board of RWE, Peter Terium, became the company’s Chairman of the Board. RWE’s former Chief Financial Officer, Bernhard Günther, has also moved to innogy SE ...

Dr. Arndt Neuhaus has been appointed as a new member of the Supervisory Board of STEAG GmbH, Essen/Germany. The management consultant joins the supervisory body of the energy company and succeeds Dietmar Bückemeyer on the Board of Management of Stadtwerke Essen AG.

On 1st December 2016, Stefan Dohler, former Senior Vice President of the Market division, will become the new Chief Financial Officer and successor to Ingrid Bronde at Vattenfall AG, Stockholm/Sweden. Following the sale of brown coal open cast mining sites in Jänschwalde, Nochten, Welzow-Sued and Reichwalde as well as the Jänschwalde, Boxberg and Schwarze Pumpe power plants, plus a 50 % ...

Hans Bünting, member of the Board of Management of innogy SE and responsible for the Renewable Energies division, has succeeded Bernhard Fischer as Chairman of the Board of VGB Powertech in Essen/Germany.

On 1st October 2016, Ulf Heitmüller, former Head of the Trade division of Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), was appointed Chairman of the Board of Verbundnetz Gas AG (VNG), Leipzig/Germany, succeeding Karsten Heuchert.

Since October 2016, Dmitry Kotulskiy has been spokesman for the Board of Management of Wingas GmbH, Kassel/Germany. He succeeds Gerhard König, who has left the company.

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), ...

As part of reorganisation in the permanent storage sector, planning, construction, operating and decommissioning tasks for permanent storage sites formerly carried out by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), the German Company for the Construction and Operation of Waste Repositories (DBE) and Asse GmbH have now been handed over to the newly established Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE), Peine/Germany. The ...

Michael Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Management of BP Europa SE, Bochum/Germany, since May 2012, is leaving the company. He will be succeeded by Wolfgang Langhoff, most recently responsible for matters of portfolio strategy in the dissolution of the Ruhr Oel Joint Venture between BP and the Russian company Rosneft, on 1st January 2017.

In his role as Chief Digital Officer, Matthew Timms has been managing the newly formed Digital Business Unit of E.ON SE, Düsseldorf/Germany, since 1st August 2016. Timms was previously responsible for digital business at SAP AG in London.