Wolfgang Niedermark was born in Gelsenkirchen in 1965. He is married and has two children.

He studied economic and social geography, international law, political science, and economics in Münster. Starting in 1994, he worked as Regional Manager at the East Asian Association in Hamburg, and from 1996 as Executive Director of the Australia-New Zealand Association in Hamburg. At the same time, in 1998, he assumed the position of Executive Board Member of the East Asian Association (Ostasiatischer Verein e. V.) in Hamburg and thereby also became a member of the Executive Board of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business (APA) in Berlin.

In 2003, Niedermark became a member of the publishing management team at Heinrich Bauer Ost Marketing in Hamburg, a subsidiary of the publishing house. He was responsible for business development in the Asia-Pacific region and the operational unit in Shanghai. Two years later, he moved to Seoul to serve as an Executive Board Member of the German-Korean Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Foreign Trade Chamber of South Korea).

Starting in 2006, he worked for BASF AG (now BASF SE), initially as a member of the CEO’s staff and, from 2009, as head of the Berlin office, for which he was responsible as the company’s political representative until 2015.

Niedermark has headed the Foreign Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong since 2016. There, as a delegate of German industry, he was also a member of the APA’s executive board and its Asia coordinator.

Since October 1, 2020, Niedermark has been a member of the Executive Board of the BDI.