He will substitute Urs Wahl, who is acting as interim managing director since Ronny Meyer left the post earlier this year to take up an office at the environment department at the city state of Bremen.
"With Mr Wellbrock WAB gains a highly qualified new managing director, who is well established in the sector,” WAB chairman Klaus Meier says.
Wellbrock, an economics engineer, since 2013 has been a board member at the BLG logistics group in Bremen, where he was responsible for the creation of an offshore logistics department.
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