
New member of the management board
Bernd Steinbrenner joined the management team at manufacturing software provider Industrie Informatik at the beginning of the year. He replaces Eckhard Winter, who has been given a new role within the company.
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Bernd Steinbrenner joined the management team at manufacturing software provider Industrie Informatik at the beginning of the year. He replaces Eckhard Winter, who has been given a new role within the company.

Turck's Austrian subsidiary has a new managing director in Herbert Salzgeber. He took over the management in January 2019.

Since January 2019, Florian Spiteller has been Head of External Relations & Support and thus a member of the Executive Board of the German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies in DIN and VDE (VDE|DKE), a standardization organization supported by the VDE.

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Uwe Scharf (pictured) was appointed to the Rittal Management Board on January 1, 2019. He is responsible for the IT and Industry business units as well as marketing, which were previously the responsibility of CEO Dr. Karl-Ulrich Köhler.

Since January 1, 2019, Philipp Unterhalt (pictured) has been a member of the Hahn Group's management team alongside Thomas Hähn and Klaus Siegmund. He is responsible for the 'Process Technologies' division and is dedicated to the expansion of digital services.

As the new Head of Industry, Energy & Logistics, Arno Reich is now responsible for Deutsche Messe AG's industry, energy and logistics trade fairs - above all Hannover Messe. He takes over the position from Marc Siemering, who has left the company.
On January 1, 2019, Uwe Gräff was appointed Chief Technology & Quality Officer at the Harting Technology Group. He took over the position from Dr. Frank Brode.

Schneider Electric, the energy management and automation group, has appointed Dr. Barbara Frei, Zone President of the DACH region, as Executive Vice President Europe Operations.

Following the departure of Dr. Till Reuter as CEO at Kuka, Dr. Bernd Liepert, the previous Chief Innovation Officer, will also be leaving the Augsburg-based robot manufacturer in January 2019 - and other executives will be leaving with him.

Arne Dehn is the new CEO of Stemmer Imaging with effect from January 1, 2019. After a two-month transition phase, he will take over as CEO from Christof Zollitsch.