WEISS PHARMATECHNIK - Key Persons


Andreas Rohe

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director of
Andreas Rohe was born in Olpe, North Rhine-Westphalia, in 1989. During his industrial engineering studies at the University of Siegen, he completed a 12-month stay in China. After graduating with a Master of Science, he worked as a project manager for factory planning at the management consultancy firm MPC Munschek Process Consulting. In 2019, he joined the Schunk Group as a management consultant. Since 2021, Andreas Rohe has been Managing Director of Weiss Pharmatechnik GmbH, based in Oldenburg. He is responsible for the Pharma division within the Weiss Technik companies.

Dirk van Manen

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director of Sales and Service
Dirk van Manen was born 1965 in Veenendaal (Netherlands). After completion of a technical education in electrical engineering he studied several degree programmes in air-treatment, electronics and management. During this period he gained professional experience at Lennox - first as Sales Manager and later as Service Manager. In 2003 he joined Emerson Network Power as BU-Manager Air Solutions and in 2006 he established the Benelux office for Ziehl-Abegg and was appointed as Managing Director. During 2012 he moved to the Schunk Group as Director of Weiss Technik Nederland. Since 2017 Dirk van Manen is Managing Director of the divisions sales and service of the Business Unit Air Solution of the Weiss Technik company

Dr. Daniel Allendorf

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director of Technology and Administration
  • Managing Director of the Weiss Technik Companies and Responsible
Dr. Daniel Allendorf was born in 1984 in Ostercappeln near Osnabrück. He completed a dual study in vehicle construction and trained as a technical draftsman at Karmann GmbH at the same time. There he worked mainly in full vehicle testing. In 2010, Dr. Allendorf moved to the Institute for Automotive Engineering Aachen, where he held various positions in the powertrain department and at last worked as team leader for design, prototyping and powertrain testing. At the same time, he completed an international master's degree and got a doctorate in the field of transmission engineering. Since 2016, he has worked at IBS Filtran GmbH, which is part of the Filtration Group, as Head of Design. In 2019, Dr. Allendorf joined the TREIF Group, a leading manufacturer of cutting equipment for the food industry. He initially worked there as CTO and took over as Managing Director when the company was transferred to Marel hf. Since 2023, Dr. Daniel Allendorf is Managing Director of the Weiss Technik companies and responsible for the business areas Technology and Administration of BU Environmental Simulation. In addition to the BU ES division, this also includes the division Heat Technology.

Peter Kuisle

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director of Sales and Service
Peter Kuisle was born in Mindelheim in the Unterallgäu region of Southern Germany in 1960. During his studies at Stuttgart Media University, he went on an eight-month practical placement in Japan. After graduating as an industrial engineer, he worked as a project manager at Eurografica Exportförderungs-GmbH - first in Munich and later in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Upon his return to Munich in 1991, he became the Managing Director of Eurografica Systemplanungs-GmbH after the company was bought by MAN Roland AG. In 1998, Peter Kuisle took up a new position as the Worldwide Head of Sales of the MAN Roland Group in Augsburg. From 2000 onwards, he also had a number of management positions at the MAN Roland Group, a leading manufacturer of printing machines. From 2012 to 2013, he was a member of the Board of Management and was responsible for Sales, Service and Marketing at the newly founded company manroland web systems GmbH. Since 2013, Peter Kuisle has been Managing Director of the area of Sales and Service for the Environmental Simulation Business Unit at Weiss Technik. Alongside environmental simulation, this BU also includes the area of heating technology.