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Change at the top of LEG’s business promotion department

For close to three decades, Dr. Arnulf Wulff has successfully headed LEG’s department for business development in Thuringia. His portfolio has grown as the years went by. In addition to providing relocation and expansion services to companies investing in Thuringia, the department handled foreign trade promotion and internationalization for Thuringian companies as well as cluster management, including support for the Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS). At the end of 2023, the always energetic and accomplished business promoter began his well-deserved retirement and passed the baton to Herbert Stütz. The new department head has also been with the company for a quarter century, having acted as deputy department head and team leader for many years.

LEG has overseen around 1,800 relocation and expansion projects since the 1990s; there is hardly a project that Dr. Arnulf Wulff has not been involved in, including in his capacity as Senior VP since 2010. The department’s successes include attracting major companies such as CATL and N3 to Arnstadt or MDC Power to Kölleda. Dr. Wulff took part in dozens of delegation trips to open up new markets for Thuringian companies and also oversaw the work of the Thuringian Energy and GreenTech Agency (ThEGA) for several years. His signature is all over LEG’s success story, which has created around 86,000 jobs and resulted in investments of around 13.8 billion euros. The expert taking the helm, Herbert Stütz, has many years of experience as head of the Investment Promotion team; he knows the business inside out and has been operating competently in the network for decades. The change will set the course for LEG’s continued successful economic development in the future. (hw)

Interview

Mr. Stütz, we’d like to start out by congratulating you on your new position as department head at LEG Thüringen. Can you tell us what your career at LEG has been like so far? 

I started my journey at LEG in 2001 as a project manager in charge of acquiring and providing support to Asian investors. In 2015, I took over as head of the Investment Promotion team. Now I’m very much looking forward to this new position with all the responsibility it entails.

What will you be focusing on in the coming months?

The department will obviously continue to focus on supporting Thuringia’s economy, whether it’s helping new companies to set up in the region, assisting existing companies to expand, promoting foreign trade or driving innovation and supporting the Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS). 

Can you say anything more about your plans in detail?

In the new year, we will continue our efforts to make Thuringia more visible as a great place to do business and develop tomorrow’s technologies. In addition, we will continue to support regional economic development agencies in local communities. We are responding to the difficult geopolitical situation by opening up peripheral markets. And we will initiate a forecasting process to better assess technology trends.

Mr. Stütz, thank you very much for giving us this brief insider’s view!

Dr. Arnulf Wulff (left) and the new head of department Herbert Stütz (right).

Dr. Arnulf Wulff (left) and the new head of department Herbert Stütz (right). Photo: LEG Thüringen

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