The 51 year old manager Axel Klug has been responsible for various management and leadership positions for the Air Liquide GmbH since 22 years. The company headquartered in Düsseldorf, provides technical and medical gases and thus offers related services and technologies for more than 50 different industries. The region East, chaired since 1999 by Axel Klug, includes the sites at Leipzig, Berlin and Erfurt. The company is one of the founding members of the Industrial Initiative for Central Germany, whose chairman Axel Klug has been since November 2007.