Bietigheim-Bissingen, May 21, 2026 - The Supervisory Board of Dürr AG has appointed Alexandra Dambeck as a full member of the Board of Management. The 55-year-old will take over as CFO on November 15, 2026, succeeding Dietmar Heinrich, who is scheduled to retire at the end of September 2026. Alexandra Dambeck is currently CFO of the academic publisher Springer Nature. Prior to that, she spent twenty years with the medical technology group Fresenius Medical Care.
Gerhard Federer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Dürr AG: "With Ms. Dambeck we have gained an outstanding finance executive for the Dürr Group who, in addition to professional expertise and capital-market orientation, brings a strong entrepreneurial drive and an agile management style. She is therefore a great fit for Dürr and will be able to play a key role in further developing the company and its finance organization."
Alexandra Dambeck has been part of the Board of Management of Springer Nature since January 2024 and played a central role in the company's initial public offering. Previously, she held various management positions at Fresenius Medical Care, including as CFO for Global Research and Development as well as the Global Production & Supply Chain organization, and most recently as Executive Vice President Corporate Controlling & Corporate Accounting. She holds a degree in business administration and began her career at the auditing firm KPMG before moving to the international building materials group Dyckerhoff, where she worked in investment controlling.
Alexandra Dambeck: "To me, Dürr stands for technological excellence, innovative strength, and industrial expertise at the highest level. I am very much looking forward to bringing my international experience in finance and technology to this strong company and actively helping to shape the next phase of growth together with its managers and employees. I am particularly excited by the combination of industrial transformation and sustainable value creation."
On the Board of Management of Dürr AG, Alexandra Dambeck will be responsible not only for Finance but also for Investor Relations, Legal Affairs, Sustainability, and Information Technology.
Supervisory Board Chairman Gerhard Federer thanked the current CFO, Dietmar Heinrich: "Through prudent cost and working-capital management, Mr. Heinrich has made a major contribution to the Group's earnings resilience and to strengthening Dürr's cash flow. Both are essential foundations for the company's robust development in a challenging market environment."
The Dürr Group is one of the world's leading mechanical and plant engineering firms with particular expertise in the technology fields of automation, digitalization, and energy efficiency. Its products, systems, and services enable highly efficient and sustainable manufacturing processes - mainly in the automotive industry, for producers of furniture and timber houses, as well as in the assembly of medical and electrical products and in battery production. The Dürr Group generated sales of just under €4.2 billion in 2025 and currently has around 18,000 employees and 124 business locations in 32 countries. Since the sale of its environmental technology division at the end of October 2025, the business has been consolidated into three divisions:
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