Hirschmann Names New CEO

January 24, 2008 • Hirschmann Automation and Control GmbH, Neckartenzlingen, Germany, announces Dr. Wolfgang Babel has been named chief executive officer of the company, as well as Lumberg Automation Belden Deutschland GmbH, Schalksmühle, Germany. He succeeds Reinhard Sitzmann, who has been CEO since 2000 and, most recently, incorporated Hirschmann Automation and Control and Lumberg Automation into the Belden Group. Sitzman will be concentrating on several supervisory board appointments in the future.

Dr. Babel, who has been a member of the Hirschmann board since October 2007, studied electrical engineering at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and later received doctorate degrees at the Columbia Pacific University in San Francisco (Ph.D.) and the Friedrich Alexander University (Dr.-Ing.).

His career began at Diehl GmbH, where he held leading posts in various divisions. After 10 years he moved to Endress + Hauser Conducta GmbH & Co., Gerlingen, There he was responsible initially for development and eventually became CEO. In addition, he also played a major role in developing the worldwide solution business within the Endress + Hauser Group.