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Company News
Dr. Wolfgang Babel is new Chief Executive Officer
With effect from January 1, 2008 Dr. Wolfgang Babel (50) will be taking over as Chief Executive Officer of Lumberg Automation − Belden Deutschland GmbH, Schalksmühle, and Hirschmann Automation and Control, Neckartenzlingen.
Dr. Babel, who has been a member of the Hirschmann executive since October 2007 therefore succeeds Reinhard Sitzmann (59)who will be concentrating on several Supervisory Board appointments in the future. Sitzmann took over as CEO of the Hirschmann Group at the end of 2000 and successfully
reorganized the company. His most recent achievement was the incorporation of Hirschmann Automation and Control and Lumberg Automation into the U.S. American Belden Group.
Dr. Wolfgang Babel studied Electrical Engineering at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and later did doctorates at the Columbia Pacific University in San Francisco (Ph. D.) and the Friedrich Alexander University (Dr.-Ing.). His career began at DiehlGmbH where he held leading posts in various divisions. After ten years he moved to Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH & Co.,Gerlingen. There he was responsible initially for the development and eventually became Chief Executive Officer. In addition, he also played a major role in developing the worldwide solution business within the Endress+Hauser group.
Lumberg Automation and Hirschmann Automation and Control employ about 1,100 people at the German sites Neckartenzlingen, Ettlingen, Schalksmühle and Hoyerswerda and subsidiaries in several European countries, in the USA and in Asia. In 2006 the two companies achieved total sales of 243 million Euro. Sales in 2007 will be in the region of 259 million Euro.
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