It quickly becomes clear that Claus Müller is proud of his origins: “I’m an eighth-generation Hamburger,” he says, even if he jokingly adds that he was considered a black sheep in his family. “For six generations, I’ve been the first not to become the typical Hamburg merchant.”But that’s not quite true, because today, it’s his […]
Qian Bo was appointed China’s first special envoy for Pacific Islands affairs. Qian has already been ambassador for the island nation of Fiji since 2018. Laura Baumann has returned to Germany after several years working for Volkswagen in Beijing. Baumann has been Assistant Recruiting & Talent Marketing in Wolfsburg since the beginning of the year. […]
Switching sides from business to politics is a rare occurrence in Germany. One of the few representatives is State Secretary Udo Philipp, responsible for the industry at the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). He is thus one of the political officials accompanying the transformation of the economy toward climate neutrality […]
Jürgen Pietsch has been Senior Manager Battery Industrialization at Daimler China since February. For his post, Pietsch moved from Stuttgart to Zhenjiang in the province of Jiangsu. This is not his first assignment in China. Between 2016 and 2020, the engineer already worked as a technical project manager at Daimler’s RD Tech Center in Beijing. […]
There is usually very little talk about China from German trade unionists. Wolfgang Mueller was an exception. For 14 years, he advised Siemens, Schaeffler and other companies involved in China at the German metalworkers’ union IG Metall – and built up a network for works councils at companies with Chinese involvement. But where did a […]
A few weeks ago, Thorsten Herdan celebrated in Chile. The occasion: the “Haru Oni” industrial plant, which produces climate-neutral fuel, produced its first liters of e-fuels. “It was very impressive,” Herdan says of HIF Global’s plant. To produce it, the plant uses electricity from a wind turbine, along with water and CO2. “These are still […]
Sebastian Dingert has moved from Ingolstadt to Beijing for German automaker Audi. Dingert has been working in China as Product Manager Audi e-tron Sportback since the beginning of the year. Previously, he was Executive Assistant to the Product Marketing Management at company headquarters.Is something changing in your organization? Let us know at heads@table.media!
Sam Wu will become the new head of US carmaker Ford’s China business. Wu is to move up from his current position as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer to the role of President and Chief Executive on March 1, Ford announced. Wu succeeds Anning Chen, who will leave the company on Oct. 1.The Nobel […]
“All knowledge and life experience goes into translating,” says Karin Betz. Her profession: she translates Chinese literature into German. She has already made significant works by Liu Cixin, Liao Yiwu, and the Chinese literature prize winner Mo Yan accessible to the German public.She thinks that Chinese literature has struggled in Germany so far because of […]
When Nancy Saich saw the footage of Madrid’s flooded metro stations in December, she wrote to a Spanish colleague: “Do no significant harm to adaptation?” It was a classic example, she explains: A measure like expanding public transport aims to achieve one sustainability goal yet damages another. In this case, climate change adaptation.These are the […]