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Thyssenkrupp board member Ilse Henne is to become the new head of the supervisory board at the company’s steel subsidiary thyssenkrupp Steel Europe, the company told dpa on Tuesday. Henne will replace Sigmar Gabriel, a prominent politician from the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) who resigned from the board last week along with three other board members at thyssenkrupp Steel, Germany’s largest steelmaker. Gabriel and other board members cited a loss of trust with thyssenkrupp chief executive Miguel López, amid an acrimonious dispute over the future of thyssenkrupp Steel and plans to spin th…

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