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Marco Nix will become the new CFO of transmission system operator 50Hertz in Berlin on 1 July 2015. He will take over from Udo Giegerich, who is leaving the company.

Robert Kloos, state secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), has been elected chairman of the Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe (agency for renewable resources) in Gülzow-Prüzen. His deputy is Clemens Neumann, head of the BMEL’s bio-based economy, sustainable agriculture and forestry department.

Michael Heidkemper will assume responsibility for the sales division on the board of management at EWE AG in Oldenburg in autumn 2015. His predecessor is Matthias Brückmann, who is replacing Dr Werner Brinker as CEO in October. Ines Kolmsee took over from Brinker as head of the technology division (which includes generation and infrastructure) on 1 May 2015.

The European Network of Transmission System Operators (Entso-E) elected Peder Andreasen, CEO of Denmark’s transmission system operator Energinet.dk, as its new president during its assembly in March. He will take office on 28 June 2015 and replaces Nick Winser, CEO of the UK’s National Grid.

Klaus Barthel, an SDP member of the German Bundestag, is the new chair of the advisory council at the German Federal Network Agency in Bonn. He replaced Dr Joachim Pfeiffer of the CDU, who stepped down from office in line with an agreement reached between the coalition partners.

Franziska Erdle is the new managing director of the WirtschaftsVereinigung Metalle, an association for the non-ferrous metals industry in Berlin. She takes over from Martin Kneer, who has left the association.

The board of Verband der Industriellen Energie- und Kraftwirtschaft e. V., an association for the energy and power industry in Essen, has appointed Barbara Minderjahn as its new managing director. Minderjahn previously headed up the association’s Berlin office and was a member of the extended management board. Dr Annette Loske will remain as general manager of the association.

Sabine Jeschke took over as head of the RWE AG press office in mid-February 2015. Jeschke was previously head of communications at RWE Supply & Trading GmbH, an RWE subsidiary also based in Essen.

At its meeting on 4 March 2015, the supervisory board of RWE AG Essen decided ahead of time to extend the contract of its CEO, Peter Terium, until 2021.

Dr Heinz Horn, who served from 1985 to 1994 as CEO of what was then Ruhrkohle AG and as president of the former Gesamt­verband des deutschen Steinkohlenbergbaus (GVSt) in Essen, died on 23 February 2015.