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40-448: In his biography, then CEO of Deutsche Bahn Hartmut Mehdorn justified the acquisition of international logistics companies with customer demand. In 2000, analysis had shown the 200 largest customers ship up to 60% of their freight abroad. Since the core operating territory had been Germany, customers were lost to competitors with a more compelling international offer. There was no time to grow organically in such markets. This analysis led to

80-683: A majority stake in the lignite company Braunkohlen- und Briketwerke Roddergrube AG. In 1923, it acquired its founder company EAG. Three years later, the company acquired a stake in Rheinische Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft (Rheinelektra) and became a shareholder in the newly established Ruhrgas gas company in exchange of its gas grid. In 1927, RWE and Prussia swapped their holdings in the Brunswick and Cologne coalfields and RWE became an owner of Braunkohlen-Industrie AG Zukunft. In 1932, RWE acquired

120-649: A majority stake in the coal company Rheinische Aktiengesellschaft für Braunkohlenbergbau (Rheinbraun). In 1936, it acquired Niederrheinische Braunkohlenwerke AG, an operator of the Frimmersdorf Power Plant . On 1 May 1933, the executive board including Ernst Henke joined the NSDAP as a unified body. Since autumn 1943, the Essen state police had been investigating Wilhelm Ricken, RWE's technical director and designated general director, for "subversion of

160-433: A partnership with Swedish electric commercial vehicle manufacturer Volta Trucks after having signed a pre-order of 1,500 Volta Zero vehicles. By 2022, DB Schenker accounted for more than a third of Deutsche Bahn's sales. In December 2022, the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn instructed the company's management to prepare for the possible sale of up to 100% of DB Schenker. In December 2023, Deutsche Bahn eventually launched

200-443: A result of the assets swap with RAG AG , RWE gave away its stake in the power company STEAG . It received almost full control of the renewable energy company Harpen AG. The full control of Harpen was achieved in 2005. In 2003, RWE also achieved full control over Thyssengas. In the same year, it decided to divest its American coal company Consol Energy . In 2011, RWE unbundled its transmission system by selling its majority stake in

240-482: A separate company named Innogy , which is listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange . The new entity combined RWE subsidiaries RWE Innogy, RWE Deutschland, RWE Effizienz, RWE Vertrieb and RWE Energiedienstleistungen. In March 2018, it was announced that E.ON will acquire Innogy in a complex €43 billion deal of assets swap with RWE. As a result, RWE will take a 16.7% stake in E.ON. Following

280-580: A source of important findings which supported the design and operation of commercial nuclear reactors. RWE's nuclear operations started in 1961, when RWE and Bayernwerk (now part of E.ON ) started to build the first German industrial nuclear reactor—the Kahl Nuclear Power Plant . In 1962, they started to build the Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant. In 1965, at the request of the surrounding municipalities,

320-538: A subsidiary of Thames Water. In 2006, RWE sold Thames Water to Kemble Water Limited, a consortium led by Macquarie Group . RWE previously owned American Water , the United States' largest investor-owned water utility, but this was divested in 2008. In 2002, RWE acquired the British electricity and gas utility company Innogy for £3 billion (US$ 4.3 billion). Innogy was subsequently renamed RWE npower plc. As

360-617: A €2.6 billion compensation payment to RWE to phase out lignite in the Rhine region. No details of the deal, or its timing, have been released. RWE operates in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the United States. The group is organized around four core areas: In addition to these core areas, there is a Coal/Nuclear segment. In the UK, RWE fully owns RWE Generation UK plc., which operates a number of natural gas and renewable energy power stations across

400-674: Is a German manager and mechanical engineer. Until May 2009 he was CEO of Deutsche Bahn , Germany's biggest railway company. He was CEO of Germany's second largest airline Air Berlin until he stepped down in January 2013. In March 2013 he assumed a CEO position at Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB), the owner and future operator of Berlin Brandenburg Airport , until March 2015. After studying mechanical engineering at Technische Universität Berlin , he joined

440-614: Is around 2 million m of crude oil (about 365,000 BOE ) ) and 3 billion m of natural gas (about 18 million BOE, 49,300 BOE) a day. In March 2015, RWE closed the sale of RWE Dea to a group led by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman despite opposition from UK regulators. The $ 5.6 billion deal, announced in 2014, required approval from 14 countries where RWE Dea operates in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. On 1 April 2016, RWE transferred its renewable, network and retail businesses into

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480-526: Is threatened by the planned expansion of one of the group's coal mines . RWE also operates some of the largest coal-fired power stations in Europe. In 2018, RWE was the largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions in Europe. Since 2012, environmentalists have protested against RWE because of the Hambach surface mine situated in the area of Hambach Forest . In November 2017, in the lawsuit filed by Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND),

520-530: The Urenco Group with E.ON . The remaining stakes are held by the British and Dutch governments, with one-third each. In 2019, RWE produced a total of 153.2 TWh of electricity from the following sources: 33.2% natural gas , 32% lignite , 13.8% nuclear power , 10.7% renewables , 9.3% hard coal and 1.2% pumped storage . In 2019, the company generated 88.1 Mt of CO 2. Electricity production at

560-747: The 1920s, Bonn , Cologne , Krefeld , Duisburg , and Düsseldorf also became shareholders and municipalities owned the majority of RWE's shares. In 1925, the Prussian state became a shareholder in RWE. In 1929, municipalities and the Rhine Province combined their shareholdings into a holding company Kommunale Aufnahmegruppe für Aktien GmbH. In 1920, RWE acquired Niedersächsische Kraftwerke AG, located in Osnabrück . In 1922, it expanded its coal business by acquiring three anthracite mines in Essen and

600-598: The 1990s, RWE acquired a number of assets in the former East Germany , including stakes in the mining company Lausitzer Braunkohle AG (LAUBAG) and the power company VEAG. In 2000, RWE and VEW merged to create a "new" RWE, and stakes in LAUBAG and VEAG (now both merged into Vattenfall Europe ) were sold to avoid competition violation. In 2001, RWE took over the British company Thames Water . In 2002, it acquired American Water Works Company, based in New Jersey, which became

640-556: The Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the United States. In July 2020, RWE completed a far-reaching asset swap deal with E.ON first announced in 2018, whereby the international renewable generation portfolio of E.ON and Innogy were transferred to RWE. The company was founded in Essen in 1898, as Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk Aktiengesellschaft (Rhenish-Westphalian Power Plant) by Elektrizitäts-Actien-Gesellschaft vorm. W. Lahmeyer & Company (EAG) and others. The full name

680-505: The Czech gas transmission network operator, for €1.6   billion to a consortium consisting of Allianz and Borealis . The company (named Transgas A.S. then) was privatized to RWE in 2002. In the 2000s, RWE also acquired energy companies in Poland (STOEN S.A.) and Slovenia (VSE a.s). It also owned RWE Dea (now DEA AG ), which produced some of the oil and gas RWE sold (annual production

720-794: The German arm of Friends of the Earth , the Higher Administrative Court in Münster ruled to end the tree cutting. According to BUND, Hambach Forest is a habitat type 9160 of annex I of the European Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992). Opponents also argue that an environmental impact assessment study for the mine was never conducted. The Administrative Court in Cologne denied

760-408: The German branch of RWE had the following environmental implications in 2006: 700 μg/kWh radioactive waste and 752 g/kWh CO 2 emissions . In 2007, the company ranked between the 28th and the 29th place of emitters by country. RWE has long been among the top targets of climate activists, in part as a result of a long-running, high-profile battle to preserve a forest in western Germany that

800-567: The Karnap power plant in Essen started to burn domestic waste. In 1969, RWE acquired a stake in Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-Aktiengesellschaft which allowed its expansion into the oil industry. However, in 1974, it was sold to VEBA AG . In 1971, founded Gesellschaft für elektrischen Straßenverkehr , a company to develop an electric car for commercial scale production. The prototype presented in 1983

840-718: The Reisholz Power Plant and acquired a stake in the tram company Süddeutsche Eisenbahngesellschaft AG. RWE also started to build its own gas supply network in 1909. Deliveries of coal gas to the Bergisches Land region started in 1912. In 1914, RWE opened Vorgebirgszentrale power plant in Hürth . By 1920, the plant had installed capacity of 190 megawatts, which made it the largest in Europe. Before World War I , municipalities of Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr , and Gelsenkirchen , became shareholders in RWE. By

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880-727: The UK operation has operated under the DB Cargo UK brand name. DB Schenker now is the biggest freight operator in the United Kingdom , and also operates the British Royal Train used by the Royal Family . In 2021, the company launched Schenker Ventures, its own venture capital arm to invest in innovation in the logistics industry. Schenker Ventures announced its first investment in German logistics startup Warehousing1. In November 2021, DB Schenker announced

920-1120: The UK. RWE's last coal-fired power station in the UK, Aberthaw Power Station in South Wales, was closed in March 2020. The company owns the gas-fired power stations Staythorpe in Nottinghamshire, Pembroke in West Wales, Little Barford in Bedfordshire, Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and Didcot 'B' Station in Oxfordshire. It has previously closed its Didcot 'A' Power Station in Oxfordshire, Littlebrook Power Station in Kent, Fawley Power Station in Hampshire, and Tilbury Power Station in Essex. RWE jointly owns one third of

960-541: The Volksgerichtshof (People's Court), partly because of his statement that "the war would end like 1918". On 2 May 1944, Wilhelm Ricken was executed in Berlin-Plötzensee. In 2015, a " stumbling block " was placed at this final address in Essen to commemorate Ricken's fate. During World War II, the infrastructure owned by RWE was severely damaged but mostly repaired by 1948. In 1952, the company

1000-466: The acquisition of Stinnes AG and the associated brand name Schenker. Since December 2007 DB Schenker has been the freight logistics subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn . DB Schenker combines all transport and logistic activities of Deutsche Bahn (except rail cargo), employing over 72,000 staff spread across about 2,000 locations in about 140 countries. In 2021, DB Schenker cooperated with logistics startup Volocopter to introduce heavy-lift drones. Since 2016,

1040-464: The board of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG from 1997 to 1999, and, from 1998 to 1999, was also a member of the board of RWE where he was responsible for industrial holdings. Hartmut Mehdorn was CEO and chairman of the board of management of Deutsche Bahn AG in Berlin from the end of 1999 until he offered his resignation to the supervisory board on March 30, 2009. In September 2011 Mehrdorn took over

1080-454: The brand DB Schenker Rail. Instead, it operates as a standalone business unit under the brand name DB Cargo . DB Schenker serves global and local firms across several industries. Notably, DB Schenker manages large and complex supply chains for multinationals such as Apple , Procter & Gamble , Dell , ASML . BMW Hartmut Mehdorn Hartmut Mehdorn (born 31 July 1942 in Warsaw)

1120-591: The children and he speaks German with them. Mehdorn was on the board of Stiftung Lesen . He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1982 for his work with Airbus. Mehdorn also became a Commander of the French Legion of Honour in 2004. RWE Europe RWE AG is a German multinational energy company headquartered in Essen . It generates and trades electricity in

1160-602: The construction development section of Focke-Wulf in Bremen. From 1966 to 1978, Mehdorn worked for what later became known as the "Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke-Fokker GmbH", his last position being that of production head at the "Nordwerke" of MBB ( Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm ). From 1979 to 1984, he was a member of the management of Airbus Industrie S.A. in Toulouse, France, where he was responsible for production, purchasing, and quality assurance. Between 1984 and 1989, Mehdorn

1200-455: The military". The then First Mayor of Essen, Just Dillgardt, who was also second chairman of RWE's supervisory board, had reported Ricken to the state police. Previously, he had received a tip from the then commercial director and fellow board member of Ricken, Friedrich Praedel. This "board member" of RWE is said to have pushed Dillgardt to press charges. Wilhelm Ricken was then arrested on 20 October 1943, and sentenced to death on 8 March 1944, by

1240-552: The necessity of such a study in November 2017, because the permission for the mining operations was given in the 1970s, long before environmental impact assessment studies became mandatory. In October 2018, an estimated 50,000 protesters turned out against the company's planned continued forest clear-cutting for its open-pit coal mine expansion while a court order delayed the process until at least late 2020, to explore if it violated EU environmental regulations. In September 2021, it

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1280-496: The position of CEO at Germany's second largest airline Air Berlin , where he had already been on the board of non-executive directors for almost two years. Mehdorn is married to Frenchwoman Hélène Mehdorn (née Vuillequez ) and has three grown-up children, two sons and a daughter. He said in an interview that he speaks English with his wife because they did not know each other's languages when they met and fell in love during Mehdorn's assignment in Toulouse. His wife speaks French with

1320-467: The purchase of E.ON's renewables business and nuclear electricity generation assets, RWE is expected to become Europe's third-largest renewable energy provider behind Spain's Iberdrola and Italy's Enel , and the second-largest in the market for offshore wind power. On 1 December 2023, it was agreed that RWE would be part of an £11 billion investment in the UK's Dogger Bank wind farm project. The German government received EU approval in late 2023 for

1360-511: The sales process. By early 2024, at least seven companies had made non-binding offers for DB Schenker. In September 2024, DSV agreed terms to purchase DB Schenker for €14.3 billion. Schenker AG and its subsidiaries handle worldwide logistics operations including Land Transport, Air and Ocean Freight as well as Contract Logistics/SCM, and is part of the DB Schenker organization. Since 2016, rail freight business no longer operates under

1400-646: The tramway companies Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahn AG and Rheinische Bahngesellschaft AG. In 1908, RWE signed demarcation contracts with Städtische Elektrizitätswerk Dortmund and Elektrizitätswerk Westfalen AG. Together they created Westfälische Verbands-Elektrizitätswerk AG. RWE contributed to the newly established company by its power station in Dortmund–Kruckel and the supply grid in Witten/Dortmund. Later all these companies formed Vereinigte Elektrizitätswerke Westfalen AG (VEW). In 1909, RWE opened

1440-418: The transmission system operator Amprion (RWE Transportnetz Strom GmbH), but keeping 25.1% in the company. On 14 August 2012, RWE AG announced that the company would cut 2,400 more jobs to reduce costs. Previously the company had announced to eliminate 5,000 jobs and 3,000 jobs through divestments as anticipated of closing all nuclear reactors by 2022. In August 2013, RWE completed the disposal of NET4GAS,

1480-539: Was excluded from the Allies' control. In 1957, RWE acquired the coal company Neurath AG. RWE and the Bavarian state-owned 'Bayernwerk' joined forces to build Germany's first industrial nuclear reactor . The Kahl experimental nuclear power plant (15 megawatts), constructed right next to RWE's Dettingen hard coal fired power plant, supplied its first electricity in 1962. Until its closure in 1985, this plant would serve as

1520-679: Was head of the 'MBB Transport- und Verkehrsflugzeuge' group in Hamburg and from 1985 was also a member of the MBB management team in Munich . From 1989 to 1992, Mehdorn had a joint function as chairman of Deutsche Airbus GmbH in Hamburg and, from 1992 to 1995, he was a member of the board of Deutsche Aerospace AG in Munich where he was responsible for the aviation corporate division. He was then chairman of

1560-430: Was produced in cooperation with Volkswagen and named City-Stromer . In 1988, RWE again expanded into the oil industry by acquiring Deutsche Texaco, formerly known as Deutsche Erdoel AG, which was renamed RWE-DEA AG für Mineralöl und Chemie (RWE-DEA). RWE was reorganized to hold energy, mining and raw materials; petroleum and chemicals; waste management; mechanical and plant engineering; and construction divisions. In

1600-490: Was used until 1990 when it was renamed to RWE AG. Its first power station started operating in Essen in 1900. In 1902, EAG sold its shares to a consortium formed by Ruhr industrialists Hugo Stinnes and August Thyssen . In 1906, it expanded its operations beyond Essen by acquiring Elektrizitätswerk Berggeist AG in Brühl , and Bergische Elektrizitätswerke GmbH, Solingen . During the same year, it also acquired shareholdings in

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