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Dirk Große Wördemann succeded Norbert Kickum on 1 December 2010 as board member at Aareal Bank. He will be in charge of international markets in the business segment of structured real-estate financing. This was announced by the credit institution on 29 November 2010. Kickum had left the Wiesbaden real-estate financiers on 31 October 2010.

At Beiersdorf, CFO Bernhard Düttmann (51) is leaving after 21 years with the firm and four at his current post, as soon as he has presented the final account for the current year and broken in his successor Ulrich Schmidt (57), to date in charge of South-East Europe business. Thereafter he is to take new professional challenges. Also joining the board, from 1 March, is Ümit Subasi. The 43-year-old economist comes from SC Johnson, will take the still open post for “Emerging Markets” and will be responsible for the regions of South America, India, Africa, Middle East and Russia. He already ran activities in various countries for the American consumer-goods producer, as managing director.

Professor Siegfried Wolf has joined the Continental Supervisory Board. The automotive supplier’s Supervisory Board was unanimously in favour. The board has filed the neccessary application for court appointment with the competent district court in Hanover. The ex CEO of Magna International is thus succeeding Rolf Koerfer, who resigned on 29 November 2010 with immediate effect.

Konrad Hummler, since 12 September 2007 member of the Deutsche Börse Supervisory Board, will be leaving it after the next AGM on 12 May, stated the stock-market operator on 26 November 2010. The 57-year-old becomes the new president of the administrative board of the NZZ media group, and wishes to concentrate on these duties, it continued.

From 31 December 2010 Frank Appel has left the Deutsche Postbank Supervisory Board. This means the Deutsche Post CEO is taking account of the changed shareholder structure at the Bonn company, and making way for the transition to the new majority shareholder. He is soon to be replaced on the Postbank Supervisory Board by Rainer Neske, as third representative of Deutsche Bank.

As E.ON announced on 13 December 2010, Ulrich Hartmann will be resigning after the AGM in May. The Supervisory Board chair has worked for E.ON and its predecessor firms for 38 years. His proposed successor is Werner Wenning (64). According to E.ON statements, Wilhelm Simson, now 72 years old, will also be resigning from the Supervisory Board after the next AGM.

There is to be a change this year on the Supervisory Board of FUCHS PETROLUB: Jürgen Strube (71) intends to resign his post as chair of the Supervisory Board, which he has held since 2003, at the end of the AGM on 11 May. This was explained in a press release on 13 December 2010 by the Mannheim lubricant producer as because of “rejuvenation of the Supervisory Board in the interests of continuity”. The Supervisory Board is now to be chaired by Jürgen Hambrecht (64), still BASF CEO, who will have left the chemical giant only a few days before. 67-year-old Bernd Gottschalk will also be leaving then, on age grounds. He is to be replaced by Ines Kolmsee, CEO of SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding.

Thomas Geitner (55), who left Henkel “for personal reasons” on 31 December 2010, is being succeeded by Jan-Dirk Auris, as the consumer-goods group stated on 10 December 2010. The 42-year-old manager has been working for the Düsseldorf DAX group since 1994, and has since 2008 been Henkel president for the Asia-Pacific region, in charge of adhesives business there.

Elmar Schnee (51), head of pharmaceuticals business for five years on the management board, will be leaving Merck “for personal reasons”, stated the pharmaceuticals and special-chemicals company. Following various setbacks in research, the current pharmaceuticals head is being replaced by Stefan Oschmann. Born in Würzburg, he has over 20 years’ experience in the international medicines business, and has taken over the operational responsibility for pharmaceuticals business as of 1 January. The 53-year-old will, like his predecessor, at the same time head the Merck Serono division. After CEO Karl-Ludwig Kley radically rearranged structures in both personnel and IT in past years, as from 1 April Kai Beckmann (45) is to take over responsibility for personnel.

Manfred Bächler has resigned his board seat at Phoenix Solar as from the end of 2010. The Supervisory Board of the TecDAX-listed photovoltaics-systems house took note with great regret of Bächler’s desire to leave the board early. His duties would be transferred to the other board members; in particular, Andreas Hänel took over the technology spot.

CFO Carsten Bovenschen has left Roth & Rau “for personal reasons, by mutual agreement. ” His appointment was terminated with effect from 15 December 2010, stated the solar-plant maker. A successor is being looked for. In the transition period CEO Dietmar Roth will also be taking on the finance spot, which he had held for a good three years before Bovenschen took office.

Professor Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann is taking on the board chairmanship at Salzgitter as from 1 February, five months earlier than hitherto planned. To date the 54-year-old is in charge of finance at the steel producer. Professor Wolfgang Leese (64) will leave the position early, departing on 31 January, since the recent appointment of Burkhard Becker has also clarified the succession to Fuhrmann as CFO.

Marcus Wolfinger, board member at STRATEC Biomedical Systems for eleven years, will be heading the TecDAX-listed firm as from 1 April. The reason is the decision by CEO Hermann Leistner to resign with effect from 31 March. As from 1 February Robert Siegle, currently still deputy Supervisory Board chair, will be joining the board.

At Thyssen-Krupp, Ekkehard Schulz is to take over the Supervisory Board post of Henning Schulte-Noelle, who will be making it available at the AGM on 21 January. This was confirmed by Supervisory Board circles in Essen on 3 December 2010, after a report in newspaper "Die Welt". Following the shareholder meeting, Heinrich Hiesinger will be taking over the board chairmanship from the 69-year-old.

The TUI Supervisory Board is being reduced from 20 seats to 16. The appointment of all Supervisory Board members ends at the end of the AGM on 9 February. Among the departing members, accordingly, is also Supervisory Board chair Dietmar Kuhnt. His successor at the head of the Supervisory Board is to be former Daimler executive Klaus Mangold, since the former RWE boss is not coming back again. Newly joining the Supervisory Board will also be former Post CFO Edgar Ernst, the CFO of Sever steel group Mikhail Noskov (the group belongs to Alexei Mordashov, TUI’s biggest shareholder) and Christiane Hölz of shareholder association Schutzvereinigung für Wertpapierbesitz, as can be seen from the list of proposals by the TUI nomination committee. Not up for re-election, apart from Kuhnt, are the ex head of the Deutsche Messe in Hanover, Sepp Dieter Heckmann, Jean Claude Baumgarten, president of the World Travel & Tourism Council, and Bayer Supervisory Board chair Manfred Schneider.