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Alfred Tacke

Dr Alfred Tacke (Berlin – 22 September 2005)

Dr Tacke holds a doctoral degree in Economics and held the office of state secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor from October 1998. Dr. Tacke was appointed a member of the STEAG Board of Management effective December 1, 2004, and has been its chairman since January 1, 2005.

The STEAG group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of RAG based in Essen, Germany and is currently the fifth largest German power generator. It operates eight hard coal-fired power plants in Germany (five in the Rhine-Ruhr region and three in the Saarland), one hard coal-fired power plant in both Turkey and Colombia, and two industrial power plants (Leuna and Cologne-Godorf); it builds and operates installations for decentralized energy supply; transports, processes and distributes hard coal, coke and byproducts from coal processing, and is active in the field of gas supply, transport and trading.

In 2005, STEAG had total revenues of about 4.7 billion euros.