Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches: New head of communications

At the Ger­man Tech­ni­cal and Sci­en­tif­ic Asso­ci­a­tion for Gas and Water e.V. (DVGW), Tilman Wil­helm (46) will be the new head of reg­u­la­to­ry pol­i­cy, press and pub­lic rela­tions . Wil­helm comes from the Nation­al Orga­ni­za­tion Hydro­gen and Fuel Cell Tech­nol­o­gy (NOW GmbH), a pro­gram com­pa­ny that coor­di­nates fund­ing pro­grams and net­work­ing activ­i­ties for fed­er­al min­istries in the field of sus­tain­able mobility.

“With Tilman Wil­helm, a proven hydro­gen and mobil­i­ty expert with the best polit­i­cal net­work­ing in Berlin and at the EU lev­el is tak­ing over com­mu­ni­ca­tions respon­si­bil­i­ty at DVGW. We are very pleased to have him on board as a new col­league in the near future. Mobil­i­ty, indus­try and the heat­ing sec­tor — the ener­gy tran­si­tion will lead to far-reach­ing changes that the DVGW wants to active­ly shape with its mem­bers. On the water side, the com­mu­ni­ca­tion chal­lenges regard­ing the Drink­ing Water Ordi­nance this year open up great oppor­tu­ni­ties that we want to take advan­tage of together.”

- Prof. Dr. Ger­ald Linke, Chair­man of the Board of Directors

Tilman Wil­helm is cur­rent­ly still employed as Head of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Munic­i­pal Net­works at NOW Gmbh, for which he has been work­ing since 2008. From 2006 to 2008, he was a con­sul­tant for envi­ron­men­tal, ener­gy and trans­port pol­i­cy at the EU office of the Ger­man Con­fed­er­a­tion of Skilled Crafts in Brus­sels. Wil­helm holds mas­ter’s degrees in polit­i­cal sci­ence and inter­na­tion­al and Euro­pean pol­i­tics from Ruprecht Karls Uni­ver­si­ty in Hei­del­berg and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh, respec­tive­ly, as well as a part-time degree in tech­nol­o­gy and inno­va­tion man­age­ment from RWTH Aachen University.

“The pace at which we are devel­op­ing our ener­gy sup­ply and dri­ving the inte­gra­tion of renew­ables in all sec­tors will con­tin­ue to pick up. The com­ing years hold major leg­isla­tive and com­mu­ni­ca­tion chal­lenges. The DVGW has a cen­tral posi­tion in this process of change. It will be impor­tant to bun­dle inter­ests and make them vis­i­ble, to work out com­mon­al­i­ties of all stake­hold­ers in a goal-ori­ent­ed and bal­anc­ing way, and to repeat­ed­ly cam­paign for broad social accep­tance. The goal: an ener­gy sys­tem that is eco­log­i­cal­ly renew­able and eco­nom­i­cal­ly suc­cess­ful. I am very much look­ing for­ward to work­ing on this task in the future,” says Wilhelm.

On April 1, Wil­helm will suc­ceed Dr. Den­nis Rend­schmidt, who left the asso­ci­a­tion last year. He will report to the Chair­man of the Exec­u­tive Board, Prof. Dr. Ger­ald Linke.