Thomas Wessel

Chief Human Resources Officer and Labor Relations Director

January 26, 1963, born in Herten, Germany

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Thomas Wessel
Thomas Wessel
Labor Director and Human Resources Director of Evonik Industries AG
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Thomas Wessel
Arbeitsdirektor und Personalvorstand der Evonik Industries AG
Thomas Wessel
Labor Director and Human Resources Director of Evonik Industries AG
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Thomas Wessel
Arbeitsdirektor und Personalvorstand der Evonik Industries AG
1979 - 1981Vocational training as an Industrial Clerical Officer at
Bergbau AG Lippe, Herne, Germany
 
1983 - 1985Trained as a Personnel Officer (IHK), Gelsenkirchen, Germany 
1986 - 1988Further training in Human Resources Management (VWA), Bochum, Germany 
1982 - 1988Human Resources Department, Bergbau AG Lippe, Herne, Germany
1988 - 1996Human Resources Policy Issues Department,RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, Germany
1997 - 2001Head of Human Resources Policy Issues Department, RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, Germany
2001 - 2002

Deputy Head of Human Resources Division and Head of Human Resources Policy/Controlling Department,

RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, Germany

2002 - 2006

Head of Human Resources Division, RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen

Member of the Management Board of RAG Beteiligungs-GmbH, Essen, Germany

2006 - 2009Chairman of the Management Board, RAG BILDUNG GmbH, Essen, Germany
2009 - 2011Member of the Management Board and Chief Human Resources Officer of Evonik Degussa GmbH, Essen, Germany
since September 1, 2011Chief Human Resources Officer and Labor Relations Director of Evonik Industries AG, Essen, Germany
Since January 1, 2025Member of the Executive Board and Labor Relations Director of Evonik Operations GmbH, Essen, Germany
a)Pensionskasse Degussa VVaG (Deputy Chair since July 1, 2026)
Vivawest GmbH
Vivawest Wohnen GmbH
 
b)Gesellschaft zur Sicherung von Bergmannswohnungen mbH 

a) Membership of other statutory supervisory boards
b) Membership of comparable German and foreign supervisory bodies of business enterprises pursuant to Section 125 Paragraph 1 Sentence 5 of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG)

 

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