Frank Appel is a German manager who served as CEO of

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from 2008 to 2023.

Career

A former McKinsey consultant, Appel first joined Deutsche Post in 2000. From November 2002, he was a member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Post AG. Appel served as

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of the supervisory board of Deutsche Postbank AG, but effective 31 December 2010, he resigned his position on the supervisory board. In his capacity as CEO, Appel accompanied

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on various state visits abroad, including to China in 2012 and in 2014. At the shareholders' meeting on April 7, 2022, Appel was elected to the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Telekom AG until 2026. On the same day, he was elected by the Supervisory Board to succeed Ulrich Lehner as its Chairman.

Other activities

Government agencies

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(EDB), Member of the International Advisory Council

Corporate boards

* RWE, Chair of the Supervisory Board (since 2025) *

Deutsche Telekom AG Deutsche Telekom AG (, ; often just Telekom, DTAG or DT; stylised as ·T·) is a partially state-owned German telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn and the largest telecommunications provider in Europe by revenue. It was formed in 199 ...

, Member and Chair of the Supervisory Board (since 2022) * Fresenius, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2021) *

DHL Global Forwarding DHL Global Forwarding, formerly known as DHL Danzas Air & Ocean, is a division of Deutsche Post DHL providing air and ocean freight forwarding services. It also plans and undertakes major logistics projects under the brand name DHL Industrial P ...

, Chair of the Supervisory Board *

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, Member of the supervisory board (2018–2019) *

Deutsche Postbank Postbank (; full name: Postbank – eine Niederlassung der Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, ) is a branch of Deutsche Bank for retail banking, which was formed from the demerger of the postal savings division of Deutsche Bundespost in 1990. Si ...

, Chair of the Supervisory Board (2008–2011)

Non-profit organizations

* Baden-Badener Unternehmer-Gespräche (BBUG), Member of the Board of Trustees * econsense, Member of the Board of Trustees * Federation of German Industries (BDI), Member of the Presidium *

Max Planck Society The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...

, Member of the Senate * Working Group of Protestant Businesses (AEU), Member of the Board of Trustees

Personal life

Appel was born in 1961, is married and is the

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of two children. He spent his childhood growing up in Hamburg.

Education

* 1989 - MSc in

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University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

, Munich, Germany. * 1993 -

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neurobiology Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, ...

at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.

References

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