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Annette Mann will be the first woman to head the Austrian Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines from March 2022
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Lufthansa has announced several changes in management for the coming year.
As of March 1, Annette Mann will be the head of the Austrian subsidiary Austrian Airlines (AUA) and successor to Alexis von Hoensbroech, as the group announced on Friday.
The 43-year-old is the first woman to head the AUA.
She was previously responsible for corporate responsibility and sustainability in the Lufthansa Group.
The previous AUA boss is leaving the company "with immediate effect at his own request".
From April, the Lufthansa Airlines will be headed by Jens Ritter, the previous Eurowings manager, who will replace the previous CEO, Klaus Froese.
Froese will be working as a pilot again and next year he will switch to the cockpit of the new flagship Boeing 787 as captain.
The position of CFO, which Jörg Beißel will take over from Patrick Staudacher in April, will also be filled at this management level below the Group Board of Management.
The executive board of the freight subsidiary Lufthansa Cargo is also due for a new appointment on March 1: Dietmar Focke is moving from Lufthansa Technik to the post of operations and personnel manager.
He succeeds Harald Gloy, who, like Staudacher, is leaving the Lufthansa Group on his own initiative.
CEO Carsten Spohr described these and six other top personalities as "another important step in our transformation".
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