{"id":13219,"date":"2026-03-30T09:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/?p=13219"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:58:43","slug":"german-airways-appoints-axel-schefe-as-chief-technical-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/german-airways-ernennt-axel-schefe-zum-geschaeftsfuehrer-technik","title":{"rendered":"German Airways Appoints Axel Schefe as Managing Director of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cologne\/Bonn, 30 March 2026<\/strong>&nbsp;- German Airways GmbH (German Airways) has appointed&nbsp;<strong>Axel Schefe<\/strong>&nbsp;as of 01.04. as&nbsp;<strong>Managing Director Technology<\/strong>. With this personnel decision, the company is specifically strengthening its technical organisation and relying on experience in the combination of strategic management and operational implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Axel Schefe, a graduate aerospace engineer, has many years of experience in the aviation industry. Since 2007, Axel Schefe has held various management positions in the aviation industry, where he was responsible for key areas such as fleet management and strategic technical purchasing. In these roles, he developed structures and processes in a targeted manner and strengthened operational efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most recently, Schefe was Managing Director of the Estonian airline Marabu. In this role, he was responsible for the structural development of the organisation and the stabilisation of operational processes during a challenging start-up phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his new position at German Airways, he will further develop the technical division, consolidate existing structures and expand cooperation between the operating units. Against the background of the increasing relevance of the technical division, Axel Schefe will drive forward the strategic development in order to systematically realise the entry into the technical third-party business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201eWe are delighted to have gained a proven industry expert for German Airways in Axel Schefe. He will strengthen the technology division in a targeted manner, provide new impetus and thus make a significant contribution to the overall development of German Airways,\u201c says Mr Schefe.&nbsp;<strong>Maren Wolters<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Managing Director of German Airways<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this addition to the management team, German Airways is emphasising its commitment to the targeted further development of technology as a central division of German Airways.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K\u00f6ln\/Bonn, 30. M\u00e4rz 2026&nbsp;\u2013 Die German Airways GmbH (German Airways) beruft&nbsp;Axel Schefe&nbsp;zum 01.04. als&nbsp;Gesch\u00e4ftsf\u00fchrer Technik. Mit der Personalentscheidung st\u00e4rkt das Unternehmen gezielt ihre technische Organisation und setzt auf Erfahrung in der Verbindung von strategischer Steuerung und operativer Umsetzung. Axel Schefe, Dipl.-Ing. f\u00fcr Luft- und Raumfahrt, verf\u00fcgt \u00fcber langj\u00e4hrige Branchenerfahrung in der Luftfahrt. Seit 2007 war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unkategorisiert"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13220,"href":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219\/revisions\/13220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanairways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}