The position of managing director of the federal German Energy Agency (Dena) is to be re-advertised in the coming days.
That said the chairman of the supervisory board, the parliamentary secretary of state for economic affairs Stefan Wenzel (Greens), on Tuesday evening in Berlin at an event to bid farewell to the current managing director Andreas Kuhlmann. “It will also be advertised publicly in a few days and then everyone can apply again.”
The procedure for filling the post is to be rolled out again after it became known that Michael Schäfer, who was actually intended, is the best man of State Secretary for Economic Affairs Patrick Graichen, who in turn sat on the selection committee that Schäfer had proposed for the post.
“We have broadened the selection committee in terms of the number of people, but also in terms of anchoring it in the ministries,” said Wenzel.
He hopes that a decision will be made “very early” and that it will be known before the summer break who will lead Dena in the future together with the other managing director Kristina Haverkamp. Schäfer should have taken office on June 15. (dpa)
