Dechema with new chairman and new board members
Dr. Wolfram Stichert, Hte GmbH, Heidelberg, will take over as Chairman of the Dechema Executive Board from January 2025. Five new members were also elected to the Dechema Board.
Prof. Thomas Hirth (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT) takes over the office of Treasurer at Dechema. Prof. Sonja Berensmeier (Technical University of Munich), Dr. Ralph Kleinschmidt (Thyssenkrupp Uhde, Dortmund), Dr. André Overmeyer (Merck, Darmstadt), Dr. Andrea Traube (KyooBe Tech GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen), Dr. Andreas Widl (Samson AG, Frankfurt am Main) were unanimously elected to the Board by the General Assembly at the end of November 2024 and will strengthen the Dechema Board from January 2025.
Prof. Maximilian Fleischer (Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG, Munich) was re-elected. The members of the Dechema Executive Board are each elected for three years and represent the most important areas of the association in the groups "Apparatus and Plant Engineering", "Science" and "Chemical Industry/Biotechnology".