Rheinmetall AG

Engineering graduate
Born in 1963
Nationality: German

CEO since 1 January 2013
Member since 1 January 2012
Appointed up to 31 December 2021
Employee of Rheinmetall since 1990

Biography

Armin Papperger (born 1963) is as of 1 January 2013 Rheinmetall AG’s Chairman. At the same time, as Chairman of the Management Board Defence, he is responsible for this sector. After graduating in Engineering, Papperger began his career in 1990 in quality management in the Rheinmetall Defence Group. From 2001 on, he was managing director of various Defence subsidiaries. In July 2007, Papperger was also appointed head of the Weapon and Munitions division. In early 2010, he took on responsibility for both the Vehicle Systems and the Weapon and Munitions division on the Management Board Defence.

Lawyer
Born in 1960
Nationality: German

Member since 1 January 2017
Appointed up to 31 December 2019
Employee of Rheinmetall since 1997

Peter Sebastian Krause is Member of the Executive Board of Rheinmetall AG.

Biography

Peter Sebastian Krause (born 1960) has been the member of the Executive Board of Rheinmetall AG responsible for Human Resources and the company’s Labor Director since 1 January 2017.
Following his 2nd State Examination, he began his career in 1989 at a European employers’ association in Brussels. Before moving to the Rheinmetall Group subsidiary Pierburg GmbH in 1997, Peter Sebastian Krause worked for the employers’ association Unternehmerschaft Niederrhein/Krefeld from 1992, advising and representing members in matters of employment, collective wage and social law. At Pierburg, Peter Sebastian Krause spent the next decade holding various management and executive positions in the fields of law, organization, production, social affairs and human resources.

In July 2007, he was appointed as a member of the Executive Board of the former Kolbenschmidt Pierburg AG (now: Rheinmetall Automotive AG) with responsibility for Human Resources, a role he still performs jointly today. Following many successful years in the Automotive sector, Peter Sebastian Krause was appointed as a Senior Executive Officer of Rheinmetall AG in January 2014. As well as managing the central HR department, his responsibilities included the group of top-level executive managers at the Rheinmetall Group. Succession arrangements in the Defence sector also resulted in his appointment to the Management Board Defence in January 2014.

Business graduate
Born in 1964
Nationality: German

Member since 1 December 2022
Appointed up to 30 November 2025
Employee of Rheinmetall since 2022
Dagmar Steinert is CFO of Rheinmetall AG.

Biography

After studying business management at the University of Cologne and graduating as a business administrator, Dagmar Steinert worked for various audit firms, most recently for PriceWaterhouseCoopers. During this time, she completed professional exams as a tax consultant and chartered accountant.

In 2003, she joined Rheinmetall AG and worked there for ten years as the Head of Accounting. From 2008, she was a member of the Supervisory Board of KSPG and remained in this role until the end of 2015, even after leaving Rheinmetall.

In April 2013, Ms Steinert joined Fuchs Petrolub SE in Mannheim. After just under three years as Head of Investor Relations, she was appointed Chief Financial Officer. Her responsibilities included Finance, Controlling, Tax, Legal and Compliance, Internal Audit, Investor Relations as well as digitalisation (IT, ERP systems, big data, etc.).

On 1 December 2022, Ms Steinert was appointed to the Executive Board of Rheinmetall AG. As the CFO, she is responsible for the Finance division.