Germany: Klaus Paul has been appointed as the Technical Managing Director of Schade Lagertechnik. His appointment is in response to the impending retirement of Karl-Heinz Fiegenbaum on 30 June 2017. Fiegenbaum has been Managing Director of the company since July 2011. He will be replaced by Christoph Seifert, who moves across to this position after having started with Schade as Technical Managing Director in February 2015.
Paul started his career in 1977 with Friedrich Uhde where he started working as a draughtsman at the age of 16. Following the competition of an engineering degree he stayed with the company, which eventually became part of ThyssenKrupp Group. From 2012, he was with Uhde OOO, a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp in Russia, first as Director of Project and Site Management, and later as one of the Managing Directors of Uhde / OOO ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions Russia.