Daimler gets a new chief inspector.
At the end of the annual general meeting in March, the long-standing chairman of the supervisory board, Manfred Bischoff, will resign.
The group will fill the successor internally.
Stuttgart - Former
BMW
board chairman
Bernd Pischetsrieder
is to become the new head of the supervisory board at
Daimler
.
Daimler announced on Thursday that
Pischetsrieder will succeed
Manfred Bischoff
,
chairman of the Daimler supervisory board, at the annual general meeting on March 31
.
In addition,
Jürgen Hambrecht
and
Petraea Heynike
would also
leave the supervisory body.
"Bernd Pischetsrieder is one of the most internationally recognized automotive experts," said Bischoff about his designated successor.
He had "closely accompanied the decisions to digitize the group and electrify the product portfolio and thus realign it".
Daimler: Pischetsrieder was BMW and VW boss for a long time
Pischetsrieder was head of arch-rival
BMW
from 1993 to 1999
.
Pischetsrieder had to resign from the Munich-based car manufacturer because of the billion-dollar disaster surrounding the takeover of the British car manufacturer
Rover
.
In 2002 Pischetsrieder moved to the head of the
VW
group.
Born in Munich, he has been a member of the Daimler Supervisory Board since 2014.
For a long time, the former Daimler boss
Dieter Zetsche
was the favorite to succeed Bischoff.
In 2019, when his contract expired, he left the Daimler Board of Management.
Actually, after a two-year cooling-off period, Zetsche should move to the top of the supervisory body at the 2021 Annual General Meeting.
However, numerous investors had spoken out against the planned comeback.
Leading fund houses such as
DWS
or
Union Investment
had accused Zetsche of a delayed reorientation towards e-mobility and the billions in fines in the diesel scandal.
Last September, Zetsche officially announced that he would not be running for the post of chairman of the supervisory board.
Our Supervisory Board is facing significant personnel changes.
Bernd Pischetsrieder will be proposed as its Chairman, while Manfred Bischoff, Petraea Heynike and Jürgen Hambrecht will step down.https: //t.co/YlhzWIU30W
- Daimler AG (@Daimler) December 3, 2020
In the industry, Telekom boss Timotheus Höttges and the outgoing Siemens boss Joe Kaeser have been considered possible candidates for the Bischoff successor.
In addition to Pischetsrieder,
Cisco
board member
Elizabeth Centoni
,
Shell
boss
Ben van Beurden
and the current
BASF
board chairman
Martin Brudermüller are
to be appointed to the supervisory board at the AGM.
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