Reports: Mahle CEO Scheider to Take Over at ZF

Wolf-Henning Scheider, currently CEO of engine parts supplier Mahle GmbH, has been chosen to take on the same position at ZF Friedrichshafen AG, according to media reports in Germany.

The 55-year-old executive would succeed Stefan Sommer. ZF has been without a CEO since Sommer left in early December after losing a fight with the company’s owners over business strategy. ZF has declined to comment.

Scheider joined Robert Bosch GmbH as a trainee in 1987. By 2013 he was running the company’s automotive group. He quit a year later to take the top job at Mahle.​​​​​