Wilhelm Bonse-Geuking

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Wilhelm Bonse-Geuking (born August 26, 1941 in Arnsberg , Sauerland ) is a German mining engineer and industry manager .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1960, he did his military service as a reserve officer candidate with the armored forces from 1962 to 1963 . His last rank was Captain of the Reserve. From 1963 to 1968 he studied mining at RWTH Aachen University .

In his first professional years he worked for WIBERA Wirtschaftsberatung AG (today PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC)) in technical and economic consulting. From 1972 he worked for the Veba Group , now E.ON ; He built up the energy staff there in 1974 and from 1978 was a member of the board of Veba Oel, leading its upstream division. From 1995 to 2002 he was CEO of Veba Oel AG, and after it was taken over by BP, he was head of BP in Germany until mid-2004 . From 2003 to 2006 he was European head of the BP Group and, as Group Vice President, a member of the Group Management of the BP Group.

Wilhelm Bonse-Geuking was appointed chairman of the RAG Foundation of RAG Aktiengesellschaft on June 13, 2007 by the federal government, the mining states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland and the IGBCE . The RAG Foundation was established in June 2007. Bonse-Geuking was its board member until December 1, 2012.

From 2007 to 2012 Bonse-Geuking was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the chemical and energy group Evonik Industries . He also headed the supervisory boards of RAG Aktiengesellschaft and, until May 2013, of BP Europa SE.

He is chairman of the board of trustees of the International Charlemagne Prize Foundation in Aachen, member of the board of trustees of the University of Philosophy in Munich and has held several honorary positions in the field of the Catholic Church.

Bonse-Geuking has been with Annette Bonse-Geuking since 1974. Wolbring-Geuking married. The couple has three sons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-BP manager becomes head of the coal foundation , Die Welt, June 13, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Bonse-Geuking, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining engineer and industrial manager, chairman of the coal foundation
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg , Sauerland