{"id":10334,"date":"2018-05-02T19:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=10334"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:39:37","slug":"jan-kurth-managing-director-at-hdh-and-vdm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/jan-kurth-geschaeftsfuehrer-bei-hdh-und-vdm\/","title":{"rendered":"HDH and VDM get new managing director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Kurth is the new Managing Director of the Federation of the German Wood Industry (HDH) and the Association of the German Furniture Industry (VDM) in Bad Honnef. As announced by both associations at the end of March, Kurth was officially appointed to his position at the associations' general meeting in Frankfurt am Main on 27 April 2018, which he took up on 1 May.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the 50-year-old was Managing Director of the <strong>Federal Association of Wooden Packaging, Pallets, Export Packaging<\/strong> (HPE). He will be succeeded in this position by 40-year-old <strong>Markus Kirschner<\/strong> which in turn was replaced by the <strong>Federation of the German Wood Industry<\/strong> where he was a consultant in the field of technology and standardisation. HDH and VDM were managed by Volker Fasbender on an interim basis until the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>The presidents of the two timber associations praise him as a \u201eproven expert in our industry\u201c, <strong>Johannes Schw\u00f6rer<\/strong> and <strong>Axel Schramm<\/strong>, the new Managing Director. His task in the coming years will be to develop the necessary structural changes and adjustments to the association landscape \u201efrom within\u201c.<\/p><div class=\"packa-in-post-alle packa-entity-placement\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"packa-465034530\"><div id=\"packa-1365841239\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PJ Self-promotion English 03\"><!--noptimize--><img src=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png 840w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-18x5.png 18w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-332x83.png 332w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-664x166.png 664w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-688x172.png 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" width=\"840\" height=\"210\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><!--\/noptimize--><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan Kurth is the new Managing Director of the Federation of the German Wood Industry (HDH) and the Association of the German Furniture Industry (VDM)","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[111,112],"tags":[36,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-10334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-maerkte","8":"category-personen","9":"tag-markt","10":"tag-schrumpfen-stretchen-palettieren","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}