Peter Sebastian Krause

Peter Sebastian Krause is Member of the Executive Board of Rheinmetall AG, Member of the Executive Board of Rheinmetall Automotive AG and Member of the Management Board Defence at Rheinmetall AG.

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.