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Niklas Wiegand becomes new Managing Director of ENGIE Deutschland GmbH

26 September 2023
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  • As of 1 November 2023, Niklas Wiegand will join the management board of
    ENGIE Deutschland GmbH
  • On 1 January 2024, he will take over the role of CEO Energy Solutions from
    Manfred Schmitz, who is leaving the company at his own request at the end of 2023.

Cologne/Berlin - On 1 November 2023, Niklas Wiegand will join the management of ENGIE Deutschland GmbH and on 1 January 2024, he will take over the role of CEO Energy Solutions from Manfred Schmitz, who has shaped the company over the past two decades in leading positions for the ENGIE Group in Germany and who will leave ENGIE at his own request at the end of the year. Niklas Wiegand will then be responsible for the management of the company together with Eric Stab, who has been Country Manager and CEO of ENGIE Deutschland AG since 1 June 2023.

Niklas Wiegand joins ENGIE from the Bilfinger Group, where in recent years he helped shape the restructuring and transformation process from a construction group to an industrial services provider; most recently as Head of Germany with around 5,000 employees. After completing his banking apprenticeship, the 50-year-old businessman studied in Koblenz, Toronto, Lille and Harvard and then worked in banking and industry. Now Niklas Wiegand sees his new job as a challenge: "Mastering climate change is the greatest task of our time. I look forward to working with my colleagues to reliably support our customers in Germany in the transition to climate neutrality and to position ENGIE Deutschland for a sustainably successful future."

 

 

Niklas Wiegand becomes new managing director of ENGIE Deutschland GmbH. He succeeds Manfred Schmitz, who is leaving the company at the end of the year.

 

About ENGIE Germany and the ENGIE Group

ENGIE is a key player in the energy transition, aiming to accelerate the shift toward a carbon-neutral economy. In Germany, we plan, build, operate, and market wind, photovoltaic, and hydroelectric power plants, as well as pumped-storage and battery storage facilities. We support industrial clients, municipalities, and the housing sector in achieving their sustainability goals by optimizing consumption and implementing and operating building and energy systems designed for efficiency under defined conditions. Through concepts for heat supply, mobility, and digitalization, we support the development of future-oriented urban districts. We trade electricity and gas, supply energy to end customers, offer multidisciplinary engineering solutions in the energy, water, and infrastructure sectors, and operate extensive storage infrastructure in Germany. In 2025, ENGIE’s German entities generated revenue of €2.4 billion with a workforce of approximately 5,500 employees.

The activities of the ENGIE Group—which operates in 30 countries—complement one another: renewable electricity and gas generation, flexibility solutions (particularly battery storage), gas and electricity transmission and distribution networks, local energy infrastructure (heating and cooling networks), and energy supply for households, municipalities, and businesses. The publicly listed company generated revenue of approximately €71.9 billion in 2025 with a workforce of over 90,000 employees.

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