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On 1st January 2016, Bernd Tönjes, Chairman of the Management Board at RAG Aktiengesellschaft in Herne/Germany, became the moderator of the Initiativkreis Ruhr in Essen for a two-year term. This honorary post was previously held by Klaus Engel, Chairman of the Board at Evonik Industries AG, Essen, whose term of office ended at the end of the two-year cycle. On ...

Following the restructuring of RWE Deutschland AG, Essen, former CEO Arndt Neuhaus left the company on 31st January 2016. CFO Bernd Böddeling has taken on the responsibilities of the CEO until further notice. On 1st August 2016, Lars Kulik, currently responsible for lignite planning at RWE Power AG, will become Executive Board member of RWE Generation SE and its subsidiary, ...

The new Vice President of the German Association of Energy and Water Resources Management (BDEW), Berlin, who is therefore successor to Michael Feist, Chairman of the Board at Stadtwerke Hanover, is Dieter Steinkamp, who is Chairman of the Board at Rheinenergie AG in Cologne.

The Board of Management at BP Europe SE, Bochum, underwent numerous changes at the end of 2015. Thierry Rondeau took over the role of Chief Financial Officer on 1st January 2016. His predecessor Wolfgang Langhoff is still on the Board of Management, winding up the Ruhr Oel Joint Venture between BP and Rosneft. Sabine Dietrich left the company on 30th ...

Wolfgang Mücher is to become the new Chief Financial Officer at EWE AG in Oldenburg on 1st April 2016. The Finance Department is being headed temporarily and concurrently by EWE Chairman of the Board Matthias Brückmann, who assumed the position in October 2015.

Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Wodopia is to leave his position as Managing Director and Chief Executive of Gesamtverband Steinkohle e. V. (GVSt) in Herne on 31st December 2015. The company’s new Chief Executive will be lawyer Michael Weberink, who has been a Member of the Management Board at GVSt since March 2015.

The new Chairman of the Board at the Institute for Heat and Oil Technology (IWO), Hamburg, is Jörg Debus, Head of the Heating Oil and Fuel Department of Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH in Hamburg. He succeeds Stefan Brok, who left his post of Chairman of the Board at Aral AG in Bochum at the end of 2015, thereby giving up ...

Christoph Bender, the former Head of Energy Policy at the Mineral Oil Trade Association (MWV), Hamburg, has been a Member of the Management Board since January.

On 1st January 2016 Dirk Klingen became Managing Director of the STEAG New Energies GmbH, Saarbrücken. He follows to Stephan Nahrath, who changed to Westfalen Weser Energy GmbH & Co. KG in Paderborn/Germany at the end of 2015.

Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Wodopia became Managing Director of the Association of Coal Importers (VDKI), Hamburg, on 1st January 2016. He therefore succeeds lawyer Dr. Erich Schmitz, who has retired.