Board of Management
The STEAG GmbH Board of Management is responsibly for the management of the STEAG Group. In addition, they regularly report to the Supervisory Board on any matters of relevance to the company.
Dr. Andreas Reichel
Chairman of the Board of Management
Born 1961
Since August 2020 Andreas Reichel has been a member of the Board of Management of STEAG GmbH and its Chairman since January 2022.
Previously, Andreas Reichel was acting Industrial Relations Director for E.ON Germany since 2018, a function which he exercised in addition to being a member of the Board and Industrial Relations Director of E.ON edis AG, today E.DIS AG, positions which he had held since 2006. After studying law in Bonn he received a doctor’s degree in 1994 from the University of Cologne. In 1985 he became a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. In his ten years as MP Andreas Reichel was member of various committees and became Secretary General of the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP in 1992. In the years 1995 to 2006 he was responsible for communications at the then Ruhrkohle AG and at Ruhrgas AG.
Dr. Ralf Schiele
Board Member
Born 1966
Ralf Schiele has been a member of the Board of Management of STEAG GmbH since October 2020.
Having obtained a doctorate in mechanical engineering, he joined STEAG encotec GmbH in 1999 as a project manager. At the end of 2000 he moved to the former STEAG AG as Project Manager IPP Project Development and was initially responsible for the Southeast Asia region and then for Europe. From mid-2004 to the beginning of 2008, he held the function of Head of Sales and Marketing at STEAG KETEK IT GmbH and in 2008 moved to the Corporate Development and Portfolio Management department of Evonik Industries AG. Sn May 2011, Ralf Schiele joined STEAG Energy Services GmbH (SES) as a member of the Management Board, and from July 2011 to May 2021 he held the post of Chairman of the Management Board.
Ralf Schmitz
Board Member
Born 1967
Ralf Schmitz has been a member of the Board of Management of STEAG GmbH since July 2021.
The graduate industrial engineer and partner in the management consultancy Schmitz & Partner, has been working successfully as CEO or CRO in the restructuring of industrial companies for more than two decades. He also has proven experience in the development and expansion of new business areas and in negotiations with financiers.
Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board of STEAG GmbH has 18 members. It brings together representatives of the shareholders, of the employees, of executive personnel and of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union (IG BCE). The Supervisory Board supervises and advises the Board of Management in performing its Group management tasks.
Gerhard Jochum*
Chairman
Former Chairman of the Executive Board of Stadtwerke Bremen, former Member of the Executive Board of EnBW, former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of GASAG, Executive Consultan
Dr. Bartels*/**
Deputy Chairman
Head of Sustainability / Energy Transition Management IG BCE
Rainer Enzweiler*
Lawyer and Notary Public off duty, Duisburg
Hartmut Gieske
Member of the Board
Energieversorgung Oberhausen AG
Jörg Jacoby**
Chief financial officer
Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG
Josef Kremer
Member of the Management Broad
Stadtwerke Dinslaken GmbH
Dr. Arndt Neuhaus**
Executive Consultant
Guntram Pehlke*
Chairman of the Executive Board of Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG
Dietmar Spohn*/**
Member of the Management Board
Stadtwerke Bochum Holding GmbH
Andreas Detemple*
Chairman of the Works Council for the Fenne Power Plant
Markus Drese
Chairman of the Works Council for the Walsum Power Plant
Thomas Dinter
Chairman of the Works Council Herne
combined heat and power plant
Bernd Hagemeier*/**
Chairman of the Works Council for the Bergkamen Power Plant
Ursula Samland**
Thomas Zimmer
Chairman of the Works Council for the Bexbach Power Plant
Jörg Banaszak
Head of purchasing department
STEAG GmbH
Karlheinz Auerhahn
Recklinghausen Area Manager IG BCE
Michael Vassiliadis*
Chairman of the IG BCE union
*) also a member of the Executive Committee of the Supervisory Board
**) also a member of the Auditing Committee of the Supervisory Board
