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Bernd Eulitz takes over the executive chair at Knorr-Bremse on November 1st
The supplier Knorr-Bremse, who specializes in truck and railway technology, will receive a new CEO. Bernd Eulitz, who is currently responsible for the US business at Linde, will take over the post on November 1. This was announced by Knorr-Bremse after the election on the Supervisory Board, confirming a previous report by manager magazin. At the same time, the 53-year-old will be responsible for Human Resources as Labor Director.
According to information from manager magazin, Eulitz was the only candidate for the succession to the departing CEO Klaus Deller. At the end of April Knorr-Bremse had left the manager. Deller was very successful on business; however, it came to conflicts with the other boards and major shareholder Heinz Hermann Thiele. He had led Knorr-Bremse himself for a long time and now sits as a simple member of the Supervisory Board. Thiele has already worn several successors as chief executive officer; In the early summer it also came to break with Deller. The manager magazin had reported in detail about the background.
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In addition to Eulitz, Knorr-Bremse had approached a number of other candidates in the run-up, according to the supervisory board. The company is said to be the former head of the elevator division of ThyssenKrupp Show stock market chart, Andreas Schierenbeck, asked. However, he moved to the energy company Uniper Show stock market chart, Wilko Stark, until April the purchasing manager of Mercedes and Holger Engelmann, head of the automotive supplier Webasto, should have been contacted. Since Deller’s resignation, Knorr-Bremse has been without a boss; Major shareholder Thiele had temporarily taken over operational tasks again.
Eulitz has been with Linde since 2004 Show stock market chart active and since 2015 member of the board of the industrial gas group. There he headed the businesses in South and East Asia. Previously, the process engineer worked for Air Liquide and A.T. Kearney.