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Klaus-Dieter Böhme new Head of Institutional Customers
Klaus-Dieter Böhme (47), responsible to date for savings bank support in DekaBank’s institutional business, took over the general management of the Institutional Customers unit of the central asset manager for the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe on 1st of January 2012. The unit was temporarily managed by Oliver Behrens, the Board of Management member with responsibility for the business unit, in his capacity as acting head of the unit. Oliver Behrens said, “Klaus-Dieter Böhme has a strong professional track record in sales. He has worked for the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe for many years and is very familiar with the requirements of the alliance partners and their customers. My colleagues on the Board of Management and I are delighted to have succeeded in getting him onboard for this important role.”
Klaus-Dieter Böhme started his career in 1984 at Beamtenbank zu Kiel with a traineeship in banking. In 1990, he moved to Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein and at the same time attended the Kiel Bank Academy. After an initial period of experience in securities settlement, the qualified banking specialist switched to sales in 1991 and took on his first management duties in the trading and capital markets section just a short while later. From 2000 on he was head of customer trade for EUREX and Xetra. Klaus-Dieter Böhme subsequently worked at HSH Nordbank, the successor bank of Kieler Landesbank, as Head of Customer Services Savings Banks, Banks and Public Sector Clients as well as Deputy Head of the bank’s entire customer business. He joined DekaBank’s Corporates & Markets business division on 1st of June 2007 and became Head of the Institutional Sales Savings Banks unit on 1st of May 2008.