Jürgen Hogrefe, born in 1949, has been heading the department for Economic Affairs, Political and Societal Issues of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG since May of 2003. He acts as the group’s fully authorized representative (Generalbevollmächtigter) and operates from Berlin.

As a journalist (M.A. in public relations), Mr. Hogrefe was an editor with “Der SPIEGEL” news magazine for eighteen years, serving as its Near East correspondent in Jerusalem from 1993 until 1998.
Until the beginning of 2003, he reported from the news magazine’s offices in the German capital as its German foreign policy correspondent.

Mr. Hogrefe has written and edited several books, his latest publications are:
“ Gerhard Schröder – Ein Porträt“ (a portrait of the German Chancellor), Siedler Verlag, Berlin 2002 and “Das Helle und das Dunkle“ (What is Light and what is Dark) as well as “Das neue Denken – Das Neue denken“ (New Ways of Thinking – Ways of New Thought”), Steidl Verlag, Göttingen (jointly with Professor Utz Claassen).