Thielmann is new VDKF president

GERMANY: Karl-Heinz Thielmann, managing director of refrigeration and air conditioning distributor GVS Kälte-Klima-Technik GmbH, has been elected president of the German contractors’ group VDKF.

He replaces senior vice-president Reinhard Jeschkeit, who has been filling the president’s role after former president Wolfgang Zaremski’s stepped down to become ASERCOM president last year. 

Thielmann previously acted as the association’s auditor. That role has now been filled by Egon Schrezenmaier.