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At an extraordinary meeting on 22nd April 2020 the Supervisory Board of Uniper SE, Düsseldorf/Germany, elected Prof. Klaus-Dieter Maubach as new Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Prof. Maubach began his career in the energy sector in 1995. Over the last 25 years, he has fulfilled many leadership roles in several energy companies, such as E.ON. In addition, he is also ...

Barbara Minderjahn, General Manager of the German Association of the Industrial Energy and Power Industry (VIK) in Essen/Germany, has left this association by mutual agreement. Christian Seyfert will take on the role of managing the VIK as a new Managing Director on 1st July 2020. He currently holds a leading position as an authorised signatory for Vattenfall in the regional ...

Florian Eckert has managed the industrial compressed air segment at Atlas Copco Kompressoren und Drucklufttechnik GmbH in Essen/Germany since 1st February 2020. Eckert previously worked as Marketing Manager for industrial compressed air.

Two heads of department retired from the district government on 31st January 2020: Bernd Müller, Head of Department 5 (Environment and Occupational Health and Safety), and Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner, Head of Department 6 (Mining and Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia).

Wolf Merkel started work as the full-time Member of the Board of Management responsible for water at the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW) in Bonn on 3rd February 2020. Merkel had been unanimously appointed at a committee meeting in November 2019. His division of the Management Board also includes responsibility for several support functions and ...

Epiroc Deutschland GmbH, Essen/Germany, has had a new General Manager since the start of the year: On 1st January 2020, Momcilo Maric succeeded Stephan Ketteler who in turn has taken up the post of Managing Director of Epiroc Southern Asia in Indonesia. With his appointment, Maric has assumed regional responsibility for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Benelux countries.

EWE AG, Oldenburg/Germany, has appointed Georg Boie as the new Managing Director of EWE ERNEUERBARE ENERGIEN GmbH. He succeeded Alwin Schlörmann on 1st January 2020, who will now apply his experience to consulting and project management for strategic personnel projects in the EWE Group.

Bernd Sablotny, the new Technical Director of Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbauverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (LMBV) in Senftenberg/Germany who was appointed by the shareholders, started work on 2nd January 2020. He succeeded Klaus Zschiedrich, who retired at the end of 2019. Together with Managing Director Hans-Dieter Meyer, Sablotny now heads the restructuring specialist.

At a meeting on the 13th September 2019, the Gesamtverband Steinkohle e. V. (GVSt), Essen/Germany, took the decision to scale down its executive board. The long-serving board members Jürgen Eikhoff, Rainer Platzek and Michael G. Ziesler have stepped down from their mandate. The principal managing director of the association Michael Weberink has been newly appointed to the board as an executive ...

Alexander Stechert-Mayerhöfer has been appointed new Senior Vice President Public Affairs & Communications of innogy SE, Essen/Germany. He has taken over the Public Affairs & Communications unit from Peter Heinacher, who has left the energy company. Previously, Stechert-Mayerhöfer was Head of Group Media Relations and responsible for overall communications on the innogy side regarding the E.ON transaction. In his new function ...