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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 ...

Supervisory Board, Board of Management, Works Council and employees of RAG Aktiengesellschaft and the Gesamtverband Steinkohle e. V. (GVSt, German Coal Association) are in mourning for Prof. Dr. Gerhard Neipp. From 1995 to 1999, he was the Chairman of the Board of RAG, and also a member of the Board of the German Coal Association (GVSt), of which he was President ...

Following a serious illness, Dr. Werner Müller passed away on 15th July 2019 in Essen/Germany at the age of 73 years. He leaves behind his wife and two grown-up children. Until May 2018, the former Federal Minister of Economics was still actively involved in the world of work as the Chairman of the Board of the RAG Foundation, and as ...

On 31st March 2019, Ulrich Pröpper resigned from the Management Board of DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Essen/Germany, and retired. He had been a member of the Management Board since 2014 and was also the head of Human Resources at the company. As well as Human Resources, Pröpper was also responsible for finance and controlling, and for the Plant and ...

A number of changes have taken place in the composition and functions of PAO Gazprom, Moscow/Russia. Oleg Aksyutin has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee in charge of strategic development, long-term planning, project planning, the shaping and monitoring of the investment program, and procurement activities of Gazprom. Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, will oversee production ...

Since 1st April 2019 Ralf Petzold, until then member of the management of Komatsu Germany GmbH, Düsseldorf/Germany, took on the overall management of all three business areas, namely the Mining, Construction and Industries Divisions, as Chairman of the Board. He succeeded Taiichiro Kitatani, who took over a new leadership role in the group headquarters of Komatsu Ltd. in Tokyo/Japan. The ...