Peter Gerber (56) will succeed Dieter Vranckx as CEO of Brussels Airlines. Subject to the pending decision of the Board of Directors of Brussels Airlines, Gerber will move to Belgium on March 1, 2021. Together with Nina Öwerdieck, CFO of Brussels Airlines, and Edi Wolfensberger, COO of the Belgian airline, Peter Gerber will continue the implementation of the company's "Reboot Plus" turnaround plan. In addition to managing the Belgian airline, he will also take on the newly created role of Chief Representative of the Lufthansa Group for European Affairs in Brussels and thus represent the interests of the entire Lufthansa Group at European level.

Dorothea von Boxberg is to become the new Chief Executive Officer and Chairwoman of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo AG on March 1, 2021. The 46-year-old will succeed Peter Gerber. The Supervisory Board still has to approve these proposals. Gerber's appointment to Lufthansa subsidiary Brussels Airlines is part of the Group-wide rotation policy for management positions.

"I would like to thank Peter Gerber for his outstanding achievements as CEO of Lufthansa Cargo AG. As a passionate airline manager, he has led the highly demanding, volatile logistics business very successfully and, together with a motivated and committed team, has played a key role in shaping the Group's cargo division in recent years. With Dorothea von Boxberg, an experienced manager from within the company is taking over the management of Lufthansa Cargo AG. She is not only a sales professional, she also has great expertise in areas such as product development. With her creativity and commitment, she will continue to successfully develop Lufthansa Cargo AG in these extraordinary times," says Harry Hohmeister, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lufthansa Cargo AG.

Peter Gerber began his career in the Lufthansa Group in 1992 and has held various management positions in the Lufthansa Group during his career. In June 2009, Gerber was appointed to the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo AG and was responsible for Finance and Human Resources. In June 2012, Gerber moved to the Executive Board of Lufthansa Passenger Airlines and was responsible for Human Resources, IT & Services. Peter Gerber has been Chairman of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo AG since May 2014.

Dorothea von Boxberg studied industrial engineering at TU Berlin and ESCP/EAP Paris. From 1999 to 2005, she worked for the management consultancy The Boston Consulting Group in Stuttgart, most recently as a project manager. In 2005, Dorothea von Boxberg moved to Star Alliance, where she was responsible for Alliance Development. In 2007 she joined Deutsche Lufthansa AG and from 2009 headed the "Strategy and Investments" division of Lufthansa Passenger Airlines. She then took on several management positions in product management at Lufthansa Passenger Airlines. In 2015, Ms. von Boxberg moved to Lufthansa Cargo, where she initially headed the Global Sales Management division before being appointed Chief Commercial Officer of Lufthansa Cargo in 2018 and thus promoted to the Executive Board.

A successor for Dorothea von Boxberg as Chief Product and Sales Officer will be announced at a later date, Lufthansa Cargo reports.