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Rainer Kolligs, a mining consultant who served as chairman of the board at Ruhrkohle Niederrhein AG and, prior to that, at Bergbau AG Lippe, died on 24 February 2015.

Engineer Wolfram Zilligen has stepped down as head of the Prosper Haniel coal mine in Bottrop. His successor is engineer Jürgen Kroker, director of the Auguste Victoria mine in Marl. Kroker will run both facilities until the Auguste Victoria mine closes in late 2015.

Fatih Birol, currently chief economist at the International Energy Agency in Paris, will become its new director on 1 September 2015. He is taking over from Maria van der Hoeven, who is stepping down after four years in office.

Dr Torsten Köhne left the board of management at EWE AG in Oldenburg with retroactive effect from 1 January. He had been responsible for the Generation division. The change will allow Dr Köhne to devote more time to his role as CEO of swb AG, a Bremen-based subsidiary of EWE. Dr Werner Brinker, CEO of EWE, will take over his tasks ...

Dr Titus Gebel has stepped down as CEO of Deutsche Rohstoff AG in Heidelberg. He left the company at his own request on 31 December 2014. Dr Thomas Gutschlag, previously CFO of the company, has taken over as CEO. A new executive board member, Dr Jörg Reichert, was appointed on 1 January 2015. Dr Reichert will be responsible for the ...

Professur (W 2) – Rohstoffgewinnung, gem. § 36 Hochschulgesetz NRW An der Technischen Fachhochschule Georg Agricola zu Bochum – staatlich anerkannte Fachhochschule der DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH – ist zum 01.01.2016 oben genannte Stelle im Wissenschaftsbereich Geoingenieurwesen, Bergbau und Technische Betriebswirtschaft (WB 1)zu besetzen. Mehr Informationen www.tfh-bochum.de Zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt suchen wir für das Bergamt Bordbayern mit Dienstsitz ...

Frank Bechtloff took up the newly created post of Deputy Managing Director at the Association of the Electrical Engineering and Electronics Industry (ZVEI) on 1 January 2015. He will continue in his role as Divisional Director for Industry.

An extraordinary general meeting of the gas transmission company Verbundnetz Gas AG (VNG) has elected Matthias Brückmann, Deputy Chairman of EWE AG, Ulf Heitmüller, head of commercial trading at EnBW AG, and Jochen Weise, Senior Advisor Allianz Capital Partners, to be new members of the VNG Supervisory Board. The new appointments were necessary following the retirement from the Supervisory Board ...

Katherina Reiche, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), has been appointed as the new Managing Director of the Association of Municipal Companies (VKU) with effect from 1 September 2015.

Thilo Brodtmann has been appointed as the new Managing Director of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) with effect from 1 February 2015, thereby replacing Dr Hannes Hesse who retired on 31 January 2015. Mr Brodtmann has been Assistant Managing Director at the VDMA since 2001.