Uwe Franke will be new chief executive at BP Germany
Dr. Uwe Franke will follow c.e.o. Wilhelm Bonse-Geuking at the helm of BP Germany, the company´s supervisory board announced on Friday. The promotion of the current deputy ceo, who also heads BP´s petrol station chain and mineral oil sales marketer Aral, will take effect from July. Mr Bonse-Geuking will focus on his extended duties as BP Group´s vice president, which comprise the integration and coordination of BP´s European activities and its internal and external representation. In addition, he will move on to BP Germany´s supervisory board in July, which he will chair from the beginning of next year. BP´s German affiliate further named Karl-Heinz Seifert and Walter Clements to the executive board, replacing respectively Dr. Frank and departing Ronnie Forbes, who has taken up a different role within the BP Group.
BP Germany’s headquarters are expected to be transferred from Hamburg, the traditional hub of the German oil business, to Bochum in the Ruhr, where Aral is based. “The reason is simple,” a source told the Heren Report recently. “BP employs 1,000 people in Hamburg while Aral has 8,000 in Bochum.” IE/PH
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