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The international private-equity firms Advent International (Advent) and Cinven announced together with RAG-Stiftung, Essen/Germany, that they have signed binding agreements with thyssenkrupp AG to acquire thyssenkrupp Elevator Technology. As part of the transaction, thyssenkrupp AG will reinvest in the elevator business and acquire a substantial minority share in the company. This underlines the attractive value creation potential of the business ...

The reduction of education-related inequalities is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Compared with other industrial nations the Federal Republic of Germany is slightly below average in the area of educational equity. Social background and education success or failure have never been so closely interconnected as in Germany. In order to counteract the negative effects of this connection ...

The 2018 business year was another extremely successful one for RAG-Stiftung, Essen/Germany, as the Board of Executives reported at the Annual Press Conference at the Zollverein World Heritage Site on 6th June 2019 (Figure 1). The foundation reported a record profit of 912 M € in 2018. 458 M € of that came from the 3.5 % capital gain of its Evonik shares in September ...

Teams of school pupils have been diligently promoting their ideas in the Ruhr region, and with the online vote having drawn to a close, the time has finally come. The winners of the “Förderturm der Ideen” school competition have been announced: Bochum is getting a recreation area, Essen can look forward to smart lamps, Duisburg-Rheinhausen is establishing a meeting group ...

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 ...

Twelve teams from the Ruhr valley area are delighted to be nominated for the final round of the second edition of the successful school competition “Förderturm der Ideen” (winding tower for ideas). They impressed with their suggestions for how to reshape their environment and their ideas for improving community cohesion. The competition jury (Figure 1), headed up by Bärbel Bergerhoff-Wodopia, ...

Kamp-Lintfort/Germany, at the edge of the Ruhr valley area: In a place once dominated by noise, dirt, sweat and coal, there is to be a horticultural show in 2020, with millions of visitors descending on the former mining site of Friedrich-Heinrich mine. How to transform former working sites into local recreation areas was one of the focal points of “NACHBergbauzeit ...

At its scheduled meeting on 1st April 2019, the RAG-Stiftung Board of Trustees appointed Jürgen-Johann Rupp as the new CFO of RAG-Stiftung, Essen. Rupp took over the position from Helmut Linssen on 5th April 2019. As announced at the start of December 2018, Linssen resigned from his position on account of his age. Rupp has already held various positions within ...

On 3rd December 2018, at the regular meeting of Essen-based RAG-Stiftung’s board of trustees, Helmut Linssen announced that he is resigning his post as CFO at RAG-Stiftung, effective as of 1st April 2019, due to his age. His successor will be chosen in the next meeting of the board of trustees on 1st April 2019.

Prof. Eberhard Schmidt, who was Head of the Central Division of Communication and Sustainability at RAG Aktiengesellschaft -until 30th June 2018, moved to the RAG-Stiftung in Essen/Germany in the same role on 1st July 2018.