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The Supervisory Board of Uniper SE, Düsseldorf/Germany, decided on 2nd May 2019 to appoint Andreas Schierenbeck as Chairman of the Board and Sascha Bibert as the new Uniper CFO. Prior to this role, Schierenbeck was the Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp Elevators. He is replacing Klaus Schäfer, whose departure on 31st May 2019 was announced by Uniper in ...

The Board of Management of Verband kommunaler Unternehmen (VKU), Berlin/Germany, elected Guntram Pehlke as honorary VKU Vice-President for the Energy Sector on 12th March 2019. Pehlke, who occupies a full-time position as Chairman of the Board of Management of DSW21 Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG, succeeds Andreas Feicht. Feicht had held this role since 2012; he became Permanent State Secretary for Energy ...

Since 1st February 2019, Andreas Feicht has been the new Secretary of State for Energy in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Berlin. Feicht was previously head of the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke.

On 1st March 2019, Colette Rückert-Hennen became a Member of the Executive Board for Human Resources at EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, Karlsruhe/Germany. She succeeds Bernhard Beck, who will continue to lead the Legal, Compliance and Auditing department and committees as well as Investment Management until his planned departure from the Executive Board at EnBW on 30th June 2019.

On 14th February 2019, the supervisory board of electricity transmission system operator 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Berlin/Germany, appointed Technical Manager Frank Golletz as Interim CEO in addition to his duties as CTO. On 1st March 2019, Golletz succeeded former Chairman of the Executive Board, Boris Schucht. Schucht left the company at the end of February to pursue new career opportunities. Decision-making ...

Alexander Medwedew and Valery Golubev have resigned from their offices as Deputy Chairs of Russian gas company Gazprom. Their successors have not yet been named.

At the start of this year, Michael Göge, who until the end of 2018 had been Manager of the Mining division at the Prosper-Haniel mine of RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, began his new role in the company’s Technical and Logistics Services division at the Pluto site in Herne. As Operational Director, he will be responsible for mine water drainage during the ...

Following the divestiture of RWE subsidiary Innogy and its merger with renewable energy company E.ON SE, Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath, currently CEO of E.ON Climate and Renewables, will lead the Renewable Energies division of RWE SE, Essen/Germany. Former head of the Renewables division of Innogy, Hans Bünting, will no longer be a member of the management team.

Since 1st January 2019, Thomas Billotet has been spokesperson for the Executive Board of STEAG New Energies (SNE), Saarbrücken/Germany. Since 2008, he has been responsible for Technology and Operations and will now also lead the Commercial section. Markus Laukamp, responsible for the sale of distributed energy systems and the development of wind energy projects, is now also responsible for managing ...

The Executive Board of Uniper SE, Düsseldorf/Germany, is set to be restructured. Current CEO Klaus Schäfer and CFO Christopher Delbrück will be leaving the company by the end of August 2019. Their successors have yet to be appointed.