Dr. Gerold Linzbach, at the beginning of 2016, returned to his duties as Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Human Resources Officer of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, as planned. Linzbach returns to the company after his recovery to oversee day-to-day business and take up his tasks and duties as normal.
“Over the past months, the management board has continued to press forward successfully with the company’s realignment. The company is well on track,” said Dr. Siegfried Jaschinski, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Heidelberg. “The supervisory board is extremely pleased that Mr. Linzbach has returned to join his colleagues on the management board as they take the next strategic steps.”
Linzbach was named Chief Executive Officer of Heidelberg in December 2012, replacing Bernhard Schreier. He holds a degree in chemistry and a Ph.D in chemical engineering from the University of Dortmund. In 1991, Linzbach was a member of Hoescht AG’s corporate planning team and later took over leading the company’s fibers operations (Trevira GmbH). In 1999, Linzbach played a leading role in founding Aventis and went on to become global CEO and President of the Celanese Acetate Group based in the United States until 2003. From 2003 to 2005, he was responsible for the textile fibers division INVISTA, also in the United States.
On March 1, 2005, Linzbach was appointed Chairman and CEO of Symrise AG in Holzminden, Germany. He successfully led it onto the stock market at the end of 2006 and onto the MDAX in March 2007. Dr. Linzbach left the company for personal reasons at the end of June 2009. He was subsequently appointed CEO and Member of the Management Board of D+S Europe and its successor companies in Hamburg.
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