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Soft skills: Conti boss Elmar Degenhart is more of a moderator than a renovator
Photo: Angelika Zinzow
The September 30 executive conference was as virtual as much of these days;
Conti boss
Elmar Degenhart
(61) and HR director
Ariane Reinhart
(50) faced their top people only via camera.
The questions, however, were uncomfortably real.
Degenhart and Reinhart presented the restructuring plan previously approved by the Supervisory Board.
30,000 jobs are on the brink at the auto supplier, 13,000 of them in Germany;
a tire plant in Aachen and an electronics production facility in Karben are completely shut down.
The managers wanted to know why they stopped investing.
Was it really necessary to close the factories?
And, it was asked in writing and anonymously why no conclusions were drawn on the board.
The last question may soon become redundant.
The Conti tip should be rebuilt.
And a possible successor for Degenhart is already being sought.
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HARDBALL
supervisory board chairman
Wolfgang Reitzle
wants results
Photo: Frederic Kern / Geisler-Fotopress / picture alliance
"At some point the boss will run out of breath after so many difficult years," says a supervisory board.
The employees had reported
their criticism of Degenhart
to chief controller
Wolfgang Reitzle
(71), adds another.
Reitzle - increasingly impatient on the supervisory board - "thinks that way".
Internal candidates would also be sorted;
car boss
Nikolai Setzer
(49) is the
yardstick for all external people
.
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