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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
Andreas Reichel has been Labor Director and member of the Management Board of STEAG GmbH since August 2020 and its Chairman since January 2022, as well as Chairman of the Management Board of STEAG Power GmbH since December 1, 2022, and of Iqony GmbH since January 2023.

Previously, Andreas Reichel had been Executive Labor Director of E.ON Deutschland since 2018 and held this position in personal union with his work as a member of the Board of Management and Labor Director of E.ON edis AG, now E.DIS AG, which he had held since 2006. After studying law in Bonn, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Cologne in 1994 and became a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament in 1985. During his ten years as a member of parliament, Andreas Reichel was a member of various committees and became Secretary General of the North Rhine-Westphalia FDP in 1992. From 1995 to 2006, he was responsible for communications at the former Ruhrkohle AG and Ruhrgas AG.

Dr. Ralf Schiele

Board Member

Born 1966
Ralf Schiele has been a member of the Management Board of STEAG GmbH since October 2020 and a member of the Management Board of STEAG Power GmbH since December 1, 2022 and of Iqony GmbH since January 2023.

With a doctorate in mechanical engineering, he started his career in 1999 at STEAG encotec GmbH as a project manager. At the end of 2000, he moved to the then 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 took over the position of Head of Sales and Marketing at STEAG KETEK IT GmbH and in 2008 moved to Evonik Industries AG to join the Group Development and Portfolio Management department. In May 2011, Ralf Schiele joined STEAG Energy Services GmbH 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 Management Board of STEAG GmbH since July 2021 and a member of the Management Board of STEAG Power GmbH since December 1, 2022 and of Iqony GmbH since January 2023.

An industrial engineering graduate and partner in the management consultancy Schmitz & Partner, he 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 20 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.

Ewald Woste ¹/³

Chairman

Management Consultant

 

Dr. Ralf Bartels¹/²/³

Deputy Chairman

Head of Sustainability / Energy Transition Management IG BCE

 

Shareholder Representatives

Rainer Enzweiler1
Lawyer and Notary Public off duty, Duisburg

 

Jörg Jacoby2
Chief financial officer
Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG

Dr. Christoph Morgen
Managing Director of the trustee KSBGTH

Guntram Pehlke1/3
Chairman of the Executive Board of
Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG

Dr. Peter Schäfer
Chairman of the Executive Board of
Stadtwerke Essen AG

Hartmut Gieske
Member of the Board
Energieversorgung Oberhausen AG

Josef Kremer
Member of the Management Broad
Stadtwerke Dinslaken GmbH

Dr. Arndt Neuhaus2
Executive Consultant

Dr. Jan Markus Plathner
Managing Director of the trustee KSBGTH

Dietmar Spohn1/2
Member of the Management Board
Stadtwerke Bochum Holding GmbH

Employee Representatives

Gerhard Grabmeier1
Chairman of the Group Works Council STEAG GmbH

Bernd Hagemeier1/2/3
Deputy Chairman of the KBR-BGR STEAG GmbH

Gerrit Peters
Chairman of the Central Works Council STEAG GmbH

Thomas Dinter
Chairman of the Works Council for the Walsum Power Plant

Nicole Mohr
Chairwoman of the Works Council Technology and infrastructure

Thomas Zimmer
Deputy Chairman of the KBR-GBR STEAG GmbH

Representative of executive

Verena Sievers
Head of Head of Human Resources and Executives STEAG GmbH

 

Representative of the Mining, Chemicals and Energy Industrial Labor Union (IG BCE)

Karlheinz Auerhahn
Recklinghausen Area Manager IG BCE

 

Michael Vassiliadis1

Chairman of the IG BCE union

 

1 also a member of the Executive Committee of the Supervisory Board
2 also a member of the Auditing Committee of the Supervisory Board
3 also a member of the​ Transformation Committee