Corporate Governance

Prof. Dr. Andreas A. Georgi has taken over the chairmanship of the advisory board in 2018, to which he was appointed in 1999.

He was a former member of the Board of Managing Directors of Dresdner Bank AG, is a member of several supervisory boards, including chairman and member of various committees and acts as executive advisor. Born in Bremen in 1957, he trained as a banker at Bremer Bank, a branch of Dresdner Bank AG, and then studied industrial engineering and management at Darmstadt Technical University. He then worked as a research assistant in the department of financial and tax law at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the same time received his doctorate in this field.

Dr. Georgi joined Dresdner Bank AG in 1986, initially in the Group Credit / Risk Management department of the head office, then as assistant to Kurt Morgen, member of the Board of Managing Directors of Dresdner Bank. In 1993 Andreas Georgi joined Bankhaus Reuschel & Co., Munich, as a personally liable partner. In 2000 he was appointed to the Board of Managing Directors of Dresdner Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main.

In addition, there were various appointments to supervisory boards of listed (DAX and MDAX) and family-run companies, in particular to cover the Finance & Capital Markets competence area.

Georgi is an honorary professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.

Georgi currently holds the following mandates:

From 2007 to 2018, Dr. Bernhard Klofat was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Felix Schoeller Holding GmbH & Co. KG from 2007 to 2018. He was elected to the Advisory Board in mid-2018 and has since held the office of Deputy Chairman.

Born in Düsseldorf, Klofat completed his training as an industrial clerk and business assistant at Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf from 1976 to 1979. He then studied business administration at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich from 1980 to 1985. After completing his doctorate, Klofat joined Klöckner & Co. in Duisburg in 1988 as assistant to the Management Board, where he became head of the central accounting/business administration department in 1989. In January 1993 he joined Felix Schoeller as head of the central commercial department.

From January 1995 to the end of 2005 he was head of the Imaging division with the three divisions Photo, Digital Imaging and Specialty Papers. In 1996, he was appointed to the Management Board of Felix Schoeller Holding. 

Klofat currently holds the following mandates: 

Beatrix Arlitt is a member of Felix Schoeller's Advisory Board since 2022.

She graduated from the University of Bonn in 1992 with a degree in economics after which she began her professional career in auditing. In 1996 she was appointed as a tax consultant and in 1999 as an auditor. After 20 years of experience at "Big-Four" companies, she has been a partner at ESCHE, SCHÜMANN, COMMICHAU, Hamburg, a long-established Hanseatic partnership of lawyers, tax advisors and auditors, since 2012. The focus of her work is on auditing annual financial statements and providing business management advice to family businesses and small and medium-sized enterprises.
Furthermore, she conducts business valuations and advises on corporate transactions.

Dr. Matthias Blaum has been a member of Felix Schoeller's Advisory Board since 2013.

Dr. Blaum studied law at the universities of Bern, Munich and Freiburg, where he also obtained his doctorate. In 1983, Dr. Blaum moved abroad to work for a London law firm for a year before joining Hengeler Mueller, an international German law firm specialising in commercial law, at the end of 1983. Dr. Matthias Blaum has been a partner at Hengeler Mueller since 1988.

Dr. Matthias Blaum currently holds the following mandates:

Dr. Grünewald has been a member of Felix Schoeller's Advisory Board since 2014.

After studying electrical engineering and business administration at RWTH Aachen University, he joined the Research Institute for Rationalisation (FIR) in Aachen in 1988 as a research assistant. This was followed by a doctorate at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, before he took over the position of senior engineer in 1992 and became a member of the FIR's management. Two years later he joined Papierfabrik Grünewald Papier GmbH & Co. KG, where he is still a managing partner today.

For many years, Dr. Christopher Grünewald has been active on an honorary basis as Vice President of "DIE PAPIERINDUSTRIE" in Berlin and as Chairman of the Committee for Energy and Climate Policy of the Federation of German Industries in Berlin.

Dr. Christopher Grünewald currently holds the following mandates:

Astrid Hamker joined Felix Schoeller's Advisory Board in 2019. 

Ms Hamker studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).  She has been a partner in the Piepenbrock Group since 1986, where she headed the "Holding Affairs, Corporate Development, Marketing" department from 1995 to 1997 before taking over as managing partner in 1998. In 2011, she moved to Kompass Beratungsgesellschaft, where she is still active today as an independent consultant. Since 2011, Ms Hamker has also held various mandates with well-known companies, including dorma+kaba Holding GmbH & Co and Norddeutsche Landesbank. In an honorary capacity, Astrid Hamker has been involved in various responsible functions for Wirtschaftsrat Deutschland since 1997. 

Astrid Hamker currently holds the following mandates:

Dr. Andreas Opfermann has been a member of Felix Schoeller's Advisory Board since 2025.

After studying physics and mathematics in Heidelberg and Cambridge, UK Dr. Andreas Opfermann completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge. He joined McKinsey & Company in 1999, most recently as an Associate Partner, before moving to Linde AG in 2005, first to Wiesbaden and then to Munich, where he worked in Corporate Strategy. He then held various management positions in the areas of technology, innovation and clean energy and, as CTO, was ultimately responsible for research and development at Linde. He took over the business in Northern Europe for Linde as CEO of AGA AB before being appointed to the Executive Board of Linde plc in 2019. There he was initially responsible for the business in North and South America and until 2023 for the development of the Clean Energy business.

Dr. Andreas Opfermann currently holds the following mandates: