On April 1, 2024, the experienced communications manager and former business journalist Mark Christian Schneider (50) will take over as Head of Investor Relations (IR), Communication, and Marketing at DEUTZ. Christian Ludwig, who has led the department since end of 2020, is leaving the Cologne based drive specialist of his own accord to take up a new role. Mark Christian Schneider is joining DEUTZ from LEONI AG, where he was VP for Corporate Communications and Investor Relations and reported directly to the CEO.

Mark and his team successfully helped to steer LEONI through its financial restructuring. Prior to that, he worked at the international medical technology company Ottobock, where he was responsible for communications and IR. Before moving into PR, he spent many years as a business correspondent at Handelsblatt and the business journals Capital and Bilanz Deutschland, specializing in the automotive industry.