tag in the web: Four directors, including the only woman left the Group. Only two new back to – including ex-head of the chancellery Ronald Pofalla
Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube (r) and Ronald Pofalla at an event of German Railways and Federal Ministry of Transport on the subject of noise abatement measures. | © Maurizio Gambarini / dpa
The German Railways is facing a remodeling of the Executive Board. Art boss Heike Hanagarth, the only woman on the board, leaving the Group in late July, said the train. Three other board members will also resign, reports the German Press Agency and Reuters, citing a number of familiar with the plans people. The former head of the chancellery Ronald Pofalla replaced accordingly in August Gerd Becht as a board for adherence to laws, data protection, legal and corporate security.
Pofalla is YTD Plenipotentiary for policy and international relations. The company had already announced in June 2014 that Pofalla should be appointed to the Executive Board. The timing was left open. Pofallas transport August declined to comment on the first train.
For Ulrich Homburg, responsible for passenger traffic, skidding the current head of the subsidiary DB Highway, Berthold Huber, on. The Board Transport and Logistics, Karl-Friedrich Rausch, will go into retirement, it said.
background of restructuring are plans of Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube, from eight to reduce the Board to six members. The company hopes in order to become more flexible and be able to react faster to market changes. Back in March, mine had announced that he wanted to save on the Executive Committee over the next five years, EUR 610 million. The end of June it was announced after a board meeting, the Chief of Track would “break new ground” in order to compete. The closing “changes in the real net output ratio, the redefinition of the core business and changes in the Group’s portfolio with a” it said in a submission to the Panel.
The Board was accused of having underestimated the competition of long-distance buses. The rail freight does not come out of the crisis for years. In many companies therefore assume that their chief Alexander Hedderich must go. However, he was not a member of the Group Executive Board.
The web has missed several consecutive years its targets and can no longer pay their investments on their own. Instead, the debt rises toward a record high of 20 billion euros. This set also CEO Rüdiger Grube under pressure.
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