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RWE AG, Essen, has replaced the head of N-Power, its British green energy subsidiary. Paul Coffey, who had only been chief operating officer (COO) and member of the N-Power board since 1st April 2015, is now head of the company, having taken over from Paul Massara. The previous CFO, Jens Madrian, has also left the company. His position has been ...

Hans Joachim Theiß took over as the new chairman of the board at SMT Scharf GmbH, Hamm, on 16th July 2015. Wolfgang Embert also joined the company’s board on 1st July 2015. With effect from 1st January 2016, the supervisory board has also appointed Ralf Ferdinand Oberhaus as the member of the board of management responsible for sales and service, ...

Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, former member of the board of management at VNG – Verbundnetz Gas AG, became the new vice-chancellor at TU Bergakademie Freiberg University on 21st July 2015.

On 1st October, Christoph Löwer became CEO of the German Industrial Association of Oil and Gas Producers (WEG), Hanover. He has taken over from Josef Schmidt, who went into retirement after 18 years as the head of the association.

Mario Mehren, former Head of Exploration and Production in Russia, North Africa and South America, succeeded Rainer Seele as Chairman of the Board of Management at Wintershall Holding GmbH, Kassel (Germany), on 1st June 2015.

On 1st April 2015, Cornelius Weitzmann succeeded Matthias Grawe as Director of Power, Oil & Gas at Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KG, Heidenheim (Germany).

At its last meeting, the Board of Management of the Verband kommunaler Unternehmen (VKU) in Berlin elected Guntram Pehlke, Chairman of the Board of Management at DSW 21 Dortmunder Stadtwerke, and Achim Közle, Managing Director at Stadtwerke Tübingen, to its committee.

The new spokesman for VDMA Arbeitsge­meinschaft Großanlagenbau is Rainer Hauenschild, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Energy Solutions at Siemens AG. His deputies will be Jürgen Nowicki, Member of the Board of Management for the Engineering Division at Linde AG, and Dieter Rosenthal, Member of the Board of Management at SMS SIEMAG AG.

Former Chief Financial Officer of E.ON SE, Klaus Schäfer, is to become Chairman of the Board of Management at what will now be Uniper, the company branch responsible for the coal, gas and nuclear power production divisions that was formerly E.ON SE in Düsseldorf. Christopher Delbrück will take over the financial division as CFO. Eckhardt Rümmler has been appointed Chief ...

Günter Vogelsang, Chairman of the Supervisory Board between 1984 and 1996 at Thyssen AG, Düsseldorf, and Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board at ThyssenKrupp AG until 2013, died in mid-March 2015 in Düsseldorf at the age of 95.