Sören Stark will be appointed to the executive board of Lufthansa Cargo with responsibility for operations, effective from April 2016.
The 48-year-old industrial engineer is currently in charge of aircraft maintenance at Lufthansa Technik. In this post, he is responsible for all the maintenance events and cabin modifications that are carried out worldwide by Lufthansa Technik.
Stark succeeds Dr Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht, who has been in charge of operations since April 2011, and who will retire at the end of March. The mechanical engineer has held various management positions within the Lufthansa Group in the past 28 years.
Stark will be responsible for handling in Frankfurt, Munich and the Lufthansa Cargo Service Center, as well as the areas of global handling management, flight operations & transport management and security & environmental management.