Dr. Bernd Scheifele
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of HeidelbergCement AG
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PHOENIX Pharma SE
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
biography
Dr. Bernd Scheifeleborn in Freiburg in 1958, is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of HeidelbergCement AG, PHOENIX Pharma SE and Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG and a member of the Supervisory Board of Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA. Dr. Scheifele is also a senior advisor to EQT AB.
Dr. Scheifele studied law at the Universities of Freiburg and Dijon. Following his First State Examination in Law, he completed a Master's program in the USA as a Fulbright Scholar, which he completed in 1984 with a Master of Laws (LLM).
After completing his second state examination in law and his doctorate, Dr. Scheifele worked as a partner at the renowned commercial law firm Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch in Stuttgart from 1988 to 1994. In this role, he was involved in the founding of PHOENIX Pharmahandel AG & Co KG (Mannheim), where he was appointed Chairman of the Management Board on October 1, 1994.
Dr. Scheifele was Chairman of the Managing Board of HeidelbergCement AG from 1 February 2005 to 31 January 2020.