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After nearly 47 years in the SCHACHTBAU NORDHAUSEN GmbH, Nordhausen/Germany, 26 of those as Managing Director, Juergen Staeter had taken his retirement and handed over the role of Chairman of the Management Board to Michael Seifert on 1st September 2019, who has been with the SCHACHTBAU Group for 27 years and became a member of the Management Board in July ...

As of 1st August 2019, Jean-Pierre Sbraire is Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee at Total S. A., Courbe-voie/France, following Patrick de La Chevardière’s retirement. As of 19th August 2019, Helle Kristoffersen is President, Strategy & Innovation and a Total Executive Committee member. The position was previously held by Philippe Sauquet, now focusing on his responsibilities as ...

Maria Moraeus Hanssen, COO and Deputy CEO of Wintershall Dea, Hamburg and Kassel, will leave the company on 31st December 2019 in order to pursue other opportunities. Until that time she will continue in her present role providing board-level leadership of the EMEA business units and the merger integration.

The German Working Group on Energy Balances (AG Energiebilanzen), Berlin/Germany, said farewell to Hans-Joachim Ziesing after many years on the board of executives and in the management team. Ziesing joined the working group shortly after it was founded in 1971 and has been a member of the association‘s management since 1994. Ziesing will be succeeded on the board of executives ...

Egbert Laege, member of the board of executives of the European Energy Exchange AG (EEX), Leipzig/Germany, is leaving the Group on 31st December 2019 for personal reasons. Laege will take on new challenges in the future.

On 20th May 2019, Magnus Hall, President and CEO of the Swedish-based electricity company Vattenfall, took over the presidency of the European electricity association Eurelectric, Brussels/Belgium.

At its meeting on 25th June 2019, the supervisory board of 50Hertz appointed Stefan Kapferer the new CEO of 50Hertz, Berlin/Germany. Kapferer, the current CEO and member of the committee of the Federal Association of the Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), will start his new role no later than 1st January 2020.

General Counsel of innogy SE, Claudia Mayfeld, will be leaving innogy SE, Essen/Germany, at her own wish. At the request of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of innogy SE, Mayfeld will remain with the company until 30th June 2020 in order to work with her team on providing legal support for the structural measures being taken within the ...

From 1st October 2019, Christian Hower-Knobloch will be the new managing director for the marketing and commercial division of MVV Umwelt GmbH, a subsidiary company of MVV Energie AG, Mannheim/Germany. The former head of corporate development at STEAG GmbH in Essen will manage the business of MVV Umwelt GmbH together with Joachim Manns and succeeds Martin Becker-Rethmann, who left the ...

The supervisory board of RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, is welcoming two new members. Lord Mayor of Herne Frank Dudda and Georg Maringer, vice-president for administration and economic management at the University of Applied Sciences (htw) in the Saar region, have now been appointed to the Supervisory Board. Dudda succeeds Joachim Poß as employee representative. Maringer is taking up the office of ...