Staff News 01_2018

As of 1st March 2018, Franck Maurin became the new Managing Director of Total Energie Gas GmbH, based in Fellbach/Germany. He succeeds Vincent Colson, who assumed the role on a transitional basis in October 2017 in addition to his responsibilities in the Finance, HR and Legal departments.

The Management Board of the DMT Group in Essen/Germany expanded on 1st January 2018. Prof. Eiko Räkers (CEO) and Ulrich Pröpper are joined on the Management Board by Maik Tiedemann and Jens-Peter Lux. Tiedemann was until recently a division manager for MAN Diesel & Turbo. On 1st July 2018, he will become Chairperson of the Management Board and will assume ...

Urban Keussen, former Deputy Chair of the Management Board at Dutch transmission system operator TenneT, is moving to EWE AG in Oldenburg/Germany, where he is scheduled to take up his role as Chief Technology Officer on 1st March 2018. The EWE Supervisory Board has also appointed Marion Rövekamp to the energy company‘s Board of Management. Rövekamp is currently HR Manager ...

On 31st December 2017, Werner Brandt stepped down as Chair of the Supervisory Board of innogy SE, Essen/Germany. His successor has provisionally been named as Erhard Schipporeit, former Chief Financial Officer at E.ON. On 19th December 2017, innogy parted ways with its Chair of the Management Board, Peter Terium. The Supervisory Board will appoint his successor in due course.

Members of the Institute for Heat and Oil Technology (IWO) in Hamburg/Germany elected Holger Mark, Managing Director of Deutsche AVIA Mineralöl-GmbH, onto its Board of Management. Mark succeeds Stefan Brok, who had left the Board of Management.

Opal Gastransport GmbH & Co. KG in Kassel/Germany welcomed Andreas Wendler onto its Management Board on 1st December 2017. Among his many activities for the crude oil and natural gas producer, Wendler was involved in the negotiations of the South Stream and North Stream 2 pipeline projects.

Bernd Tönjes, Chair of the RAG AG Board of Management in Essen/Germany, was elected for another two-year term of office as moderator during the autumn General Assembly of the Ruhr initiative group.

North Rhine-Westphalia‘s Minister-President has announced that former President of German Parliament Norbert Lammert (CDU), Lord Mayor of Essen/Germany Thomas Kufen (CDU) and energy industry manager Andreas Reichel (FDP) are joining the RAG-Stiftung board of trustees. They have taken over from the three members who were removed from the committee following the change of government in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Supervisory Board of RWE Power AG, Essen /Germany, has officially appointed the Deputy Head of HR at RAG AG, Kemo Razanica, to its Management Board with effect from 1st April 2018. On 1st July 2018, Razanica will take up the role of Chief Human Resources Officer and Labour Director, succeeding Erwin Winkel who is retiring.