Bastei Lübbe AG is expanding its management team: Ulrich Zimmermann has been appointed as a new member of the company's Management Board with effect from June 19, 2017. This was unanimously resolved by the company's Supervisory Board on 14 June 2017. Zimmermann will be responsible for Finance and join the current management team headed by Thomas Schierack (CEO), who is in charge of Legal, HR, Digital and IT, and Klaus Kluge, who is in charge of Programme, Sales, Marketing and Press.

Ulrich Zimmermann has many years of experience as the CFO of a listed medium-sized company, bringing along extensive and valuable expertise in the management of holding companies. The business engineer, who was born in Hanover in 1962, previously held a management position at Hawesko Holding AG for 18 years. He was also responsible for the company's Finance department as a member of the Management Board from 2007 until his departure in July 2016.

Prior to this, he also held management roles at major companies, including Citizen Watch Europe GmbH and Deutsche Lufthansa AG.