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Karl-Ulrich Köhler new Eurofer president
Jan 5, 2009
On 1st of January 2009, Dr. Karl-Ulrich Köhler, Executive Board Chairman of ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, took over the presidency of Eurofer, the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries. He was elected unanimously by the Board and General Assembly of Eurofer on 19th December succeeding Philippe Varin, CEO of Corus, who headed the association from 2006 to 2008.
Born in 1956, Köhler studied metallurgy in Clausthal, Germany, where he gained his doctorate in 1988. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary professorship by Freiberg University.
Köhler began his professional career already in 1980, at Thyssen Stahl AG in Duisburg, before he moved to Hoesch Stahl AG in 1988. Following the merger of the flat steel activities of Thyssen and Krupp Hoesch Stahl AG, Köhler was appointed Executive Board Member of ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG in September 1997 and became its chairman in 2001.
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