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Fraport is taking advantage of the age-related retirement of Herbert Mai (54) at the end of September to renew and expand the Board. On the board of the Frankfurt airport operator, on 1 October the post of Personnel and Labour Relations Director will be filled by Michael Müller. He takes responsibility for the Human Resources Department, the Airport Security Division and Central Purchasing. As an insider, Müller knows the company from scratch, says Supervisory Board chair Karlheinz Weimar. The business areas Retail and Real Estate as well as Ground Handling Services will in future be headed by Anke Giesen, newly appointed to the Board. The Supervisory Board appointed both at its meeting on 19 June, the company announced. The new appointments will expand the Board by one person, to five.

MAN is to get a new head of purchasing. Ulf Berkenhagen will take the newly created board spot at the Volkswagen truck subsidiary. Jochen Schumm, previously General Representative for Human Resources at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, becomes MAN’s Labour Director. Personnel Director Jörg Schwitalla falls victim, and must step down to make way for the 64-year-old. Schwitalla will in future play an advisory role in the Volkswagen Group. As of 1 September Georg Pachta-Reyhofen will pass on his board position at MAN Truck & Bus to a Scania manager and move to the subsidiary’s Supervisory Board – so that he is Group CEO without an operational department. As a member of the Volkswagen Group Management, he will run the Group’s industrial business with engines or coordinate it.

Irmgard Stippler left the Board of Rhön-Klinikum at the end of May. She was responsible for the University Hospital Giessen-Marburg (UKGM), Materials Management and IT divisions. In future Martin Menger will be in charge of UKGM on the Board. Stippler had already given up its management in early April. The area of Materials Management and IT will in future be in the hands of Volker Feldkamp.

Michael Kieckbusch was appointed by the Supervisory Board at Salzgitter as board member for Personnel and Services with effect from 1 April 2013. The 50-year-old succeeds Peter-Jürgen Schneider, retiring on 31 March 2013 after ten years on the Board. The economics graduate has been working at Salzgitter since 1989 and had been among other things a Board member of Salzgitter Stahl GmbH.

Peter Engelen is leaving TUI at his own request, the travel group announced on 30 May. The longtime personnel director has asked the Supervisory Board to terminate his contract, still in force until August 2013, early, on 31 August this year. He is responsible for the Human Resources, Sustainable Development, Legal Affairs and Compliance sectors. TUI is aiming for a speedy succession.