Crisis-ridden state-owned company: The web is transforming – Ronald Pofalla rises – Tagesspiegel

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The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn endorses the massive reconstruction of the Group to. Four managers must go – with Ronald Pofalla comes a prominent now.

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The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn has approved the conversion of the Executive Board and changes in Group structure on Monday at an extraordinary meeting. Following the amendments presented by Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube four board members lose their jobs, the governing body will be reduced from eight to six posts. As the railway also announced that the Supervisory Board shall decide whether the for the in December – meanwhile rejected – subgroup formed IPO DB Mobility Logistics AG will be merged with the Bahn AG.

“With the measures now agreed savings of EUR 100 million are connected at the corporate headquarters,” the company said. Together with measures already adopted in the amount of 610 million euros would be saved as 2020 more than 700 million euros in the headquarters. “We act because increased competition, increasing regulation and to rapidly rising costs require such changes,” said Deutsche Bahn CEO Grube. This Tuesday he intends to present the results for the first half of 2015, analysts expect a decline in operating earnings

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Pofalla – from 15th to the 22nd floor to lose

Four boards – as already reported in advance of the board meeting – their posts: Logistics Executive Karl -Friedrich noise retires, technology boss Heike Hanagarth had already given their retreat known passenger Executive Ulrich Homburg and Law Board Gerd Becht give their posts on 31 July. Volker Kefer, previously in charge of infrastructure and services, in addition takes over the safety and quality management – and is deputy leader.

The Procurement and IT go beyond the finance department of Richard Lutz. He leads in the future, the foreign subsidiary Arriva and the freight forwarding division DB Schenker Logistics. In the Board Berthold Huber moves on, yet long-distance transport chief. He will head the new department traffic and transportation. Alexander Hedderich, CEO of DB Schenker Rail, the train leaves. Upgrades, however, is Ronald Pofalla, ex chancellery minister and CDU politician.

Criticism by rapid changes to web

It was only since the beginning he has been chief lobbyist of the state-owned – and should also remain at least one year. Now he takes on the new position for good corporate governance (Compliance). In BahnTower, the company’s headquarters at Potsdamer Platz, he moved from 15th to the 22nd floor.

In public, the 56-year-old has previously made scarce in his capacity as Executive Vice President for policy and international relations. He should take the contacts to the web experts at the Federal Ministry of Transport, in the Bundestag and in the EU in Brussels. Recently, the federal government and railway fought successfully against the efforts of the EU Commission, organizationally to separate the operation of trains from the track rail network. Pofallas change to the web, which quickly became known, was controversial and a piquant Personnel. “He was previously a government member in the service of the Bahn AG”, grumbled about Green Party leader Anton Hofreiter. “He receives now a very, very good job as a bonus.”

employee representatives responded behave on the announced conversion. “We will look very carefully what consequences will have the proposed changes to make in the December meeting of the supervisory board, the position of the EDC clearly can,” said the chairman of the Railway and Transport union (ECG), Alexander Kirchner. He is also vice-chairman of the board track. (with AP)

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