Our management

Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of Felix Schoeller, working for the company since 2017. 

Matthias Breimhorst was born in Salzkotten in 1983. After graduating from high school, he completed a dual Bachelor's degree at the Weserbergland University of Cooperative Education in Hamelin in 2007. From 2009 to 2012, he completed a part-time master's degree in economics at the FernUniversität Hagen and Maastricht University. 

Breimhorst began his professional career in August 2007 with an international trainee program at STRABAG in Cologne, where he worked in the finance department until January 2014, most recently as team leader for structured finance. From February 2014 to September 2017, he worked as a senior manager at the corporate finance consultancy Accuracy in Frankfurt and Munich.  

In October 2017, he joined Felix Schoeller as Senior Vice President Management Reporting & Business Analysis and headed the Accounting & Controlling division from January 2019. On January 1, 2020, Breimhorst was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Felix Schoeller. 

With the new formation of the Management Board as of January 1, 2023, Matthias Breimhorst has assumed the position of CSO. In this role, Mr. Breimhorst is responsible for global sales and supply chain management.

Matthias Breimhorst is married and has two children. 

Astrid Enge joined the Management Board of Felix Schoeller Holding on January 1, 2023.

After graduating from high school in Detmold, Astrid Enge studied business administration with a focus on European business management at the University of Applied Sciences in Paderborn. In 2005, she completed her MBA as part of a bilingual program (French/English) with a focus on finance at the HEC in Paris.

Astrid Enge started her professional career at CLAAS in investment controlling. After holding various positions in Controlling and as a consultant to the Chairman of the Shareholders' Committee and Supervisory Board, she was most recently Commercial Manager and a member of the management team of a French subsidiary. This was followed by positions as Commercial Director of Trützschler Card Clothing and the SAACKE Group. Ms. Enge thus has many years of experience as a managing director in family-owned companies.

In the context of the new formation of the Management Board as of January 1, 2023, Astrid Enge will assume the position of CFO. In this function, Ms. Enge is responsible for the global finance area as well as IT and Purchasing.

Chief Manufacturing Officer (CMO), started his career in 1983 at MD Papierfabrik Günzach, a mill which was later to become part of Technocell AG.

Georg Haggenmüller followed up his apprenticeship as a papermaker with further professional training and then went on to gain a degree in business studies. In 1998, he became manager of the Günzach mill. For several years his responsibilities included technical oversight of the Canadian mill in Drummondville. In 2008, he took on additional responsibility for Technocell’s mills in Neustadt and Penig. On 1 October 2012, Georg Haggenmüller and Stephan Igel took over the management of the Technocell Division within Schoeller Technocell GmbH & Co. KG. During the course of 2016 Haggenmüller gradually took over responsibility for production across the entire Felix Schoeller Group, i.e. including the Felix Schoeller Division. 

Georg Haggenmüller was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) as of 1 January 2020.

Georg Haggenmüller is married and has two sons.

Vice Chief Executive Officer Asia-Pacific Area (Vice CEO APA) of Felix Schoeller, joined the company in 2020.

Yong Li Gao was born in 1968 in Shaanxi Province, China. After studying economics at Shaanxi Normal University, Yong Li Gao came to Germany in 1989 for further academic studies. He first studied languages at the University of Hamburg before beginning a degree in business administration at the same university in 1991. He graduated with a diploma in 1997.

From 1997 to 2012, Yong Li Gao worked for the Nordenia Group in various management positions in Germany, Malaysia, and China, most recently as General Manager of Nordenia (China) Film Technology Co., Ltd. Following the takeover of Nordenia International AG by the Mondi Group, Yong Li Gao was responsible for the business of Mondi (China) Film Technology Co., LTd. as Managing Director from 2013 to 2018. This was followed by independent management consultancy work in China before Yong Li Gao joined Felix Schoeller as Deputy Vice CEO APA in September 2020. 

As of 1 January 2021, he took over the management of the sales office in Shanghai as Chief Representative. As of 1 April 2021, Yong Li Gao was assigned the role of Vice CEO APA. On 1 January 2022, he was appointed to the BOE of Felix Schoeller.

Yong Li Gao is married and has two children.

Chief Executive Officer North America (CEO NA) of Felix Schoeller, with the company since 1997.

Michael Szidat was born in Wolfsburg in 1966. He studied industrial engineering and capital goods marketing at the Jade University in Wilhelmshaven. Following his studies, he worked in various sales positions at 4P Rube Göttingen GmbH (now Infiana) from 1993-1997.

Michael Szidat joined Felix Schoeller in 1997 as product manager for the "photographic papers" division. From 1999, he worked for the US mill in Pulaski, first as Key Account Manager for specialty papers in 1999 and then as Business Unit Manager. From 2000 to 2006 he was Vice President Sales and R&D for all Felix Schoeller business units in the USA. From 2006 to 2010, Szidat was Senior Vice President with global responsibility for Sales and Marketing for Digital Imaging and Technical Papers & Films. In this function, Szidat was appointed Managing Director of Felix Schoeller GmbH & Co KG. Upon his return to the USA in 2010, Szidat managed all business at the US plant in Pulaski, and later also in Anaheim.

On 1 January 2020 Szidat took over the function of CEO NA of Felix Schoeller.

Michael Szidat is married and has one son.