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The string pullers in the background: what does the hospital supervisory board do?

2023-04-06T14:03:15.466Z


In the debate about the future of the Hospital Weilheim-Schongau GmbH, it is repeatedly pointed out that the important decisions must be made by the supervisory board. Who is on this board?


In the debate about the future of the Hospital Weilheim-Schongau GmbH, it is repeatedly pointed out that the important decisions must be made by the supervisory board.

Who is on this board?

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– The structure at the Weilheim-Schongau GmbH hospital is difficult to understand for outsiders.

Managing Director Thomas Lippmann is the main representative of the company in public.

He is responsible for day-to-day business.

The district council also repeatedly speaks out loudly when it comes to decisions regarding the hospital GmbH.

This is mainly due to the fact that the hospital GmbH has not been able to cover its costs for almost 15 years.

Year after year, the district has to compensate for the accumulated (and in recent years rapidly increasing) minus.

Since the district councils decide on the budget of the district and thus also on the subsidies for the hospital GmbH, they reserve the right to comment on their business policy.

In addition, the Hospital Weilheim-Schongau GmbH is a subsidiary of the district, since health care is a mandatory task.

However, the actual, far-reaching decisions on the business development of the hospital GmbH are made by another body - the supervisory board.

District Administrator and nine other members of the district council

All important decisions of the past few years were made in this body.

But who sits on this supervisory board?

"The district of Weilheim-Schongau sends the district administrator and nine other members to the supervisory board," says a statement from the district office in response to a request from the local newspaper.

These nine members are appointed by the district council for a period of one electoral term in accordance with the relative strength of the parties and voter groups represented in the district council.

In addition, the General Works Council of the Hospital Weilheim-Schongau GmbH delegates two members from all employees to the Supervisory Board.

One of the two members from the area of ​​nursing staff and one employee from the area of ​​medical staff are to be delegated.

Occupying the seats has repeatedly caused trouble in the past

The following people are currently on the supervisory board: District Administrator Andrea Jochner-Weiß (CSU, since 2014) as chairperson;

Michael Asam (SPD/Peiting/since 1996), Alexandra Bertl (CSU/Weilheim/since 2020), Dr.

Heike Dietrich (Greens/Peiting/since 2020), Agnes Edenhofer (ÖPD/Oberhausen/since 2014), Susann Enders (free voters/Weilheim/since 2014), Peter Erhard (CSU/ Böbing/since 2013), Markus Loth (BfL/ Weilheim/since 2022), Manuel Neulinger (Greens/Weilheim/since 2020), Peter Ostenrieder (CSU/Peiting/since 2014) and as employee representatives Steffi Dietl (since 2020) and Dr.

Norbert Trapp (since 2014).

They decide who the individual district parliamentary groups send to the supervisory board – just like with the appointments to committees.

This has always caused trouble in the past.

The SPD had to give up a seat on the supervisory board due to the poor election result in 2020.

At that time, it was decided that Michael Asam would remain on the board, while Schongau's mayor, Falk Sluyterman, had to vacate his seat.

A supervisory board must be able to do that

A special qualification - for example as a doctor or business scientist - is not required if a district councilor is sent to the supervisory board.

"According to the applicable legal requirements, any natural person with unlimited legal capacity and who is not supervised can be a member of the supervisory board," says the district office.

According to case law, the member of the Supervisory Board should have the following knowledge:

• Statutory and statutory duties of the Supervisory Board

• Rights and duties as a member of the Supervisory Board

• Understand the reports presented

• Independent evaluation and drawing of conclusions

• Assessing the correctness, efficiency, expediency and legality of managerial decisions.

In order to be able to carry out these tasks, the members of the Supervisory Board would be able to attend appropriate training events.

Last year eleven meetings - each 95 euros expense allowance

As a rule, the Supervisory Board meets four to five times a year, but more frequently if necessary - last year the members met eleven times.

In contrast to listed companies, no one who sits on the supervisory board of the hospital GmbH gets rich.

According to the district office, the members receive an expense allowance of 95 euros for attending a supervisory board meeting.

A widespread misconception even in the district council is that the members of the supervisory board do what the district council tells them to do.

This is by no means the case, as the district office clarifies: "According to the case law of the Federal Administrative Court, members of the supervisory board have to exercise their office independently.

In doing so, they are committed to the interests of the company.

"Within narrow legal limits, instructions by resolution of the district council are permissible under municipal law - these are non-binding under company law," it continues.

Or to put it plainly: The district council can certainly express wishes, but in the end the members of the supervisory board decide for themselves.

The public is almost always left out

In any case, the public cannot verify who voted in which way in the committee.

Because the Supervisory Board meets in camera.

Communication is only carried out in individual cases when unanimous decisions have been made.

An example of this is the closure of the maternity ward in Schongau, which, according to the press release, was unanimously supported by the supervisory board.

But even this information should be used with caution.

Because a unanimous resolution does not mean that all members of the supervisory board have voted for the project.

According to information from the home newspaper, at least one district councilor left the meeting before the vote was taken when the decision was made on the maternity ward.

In the past, there was also a lot of controversy about this.

For example, Susann Enders (Freie Wahler/Weilheim) repeatedly complained publicly in the district council that supervisory board meetings are always scheduled when she, as a member of the state parliament, has a week of meetings in Munich and was unable to attend the supervisory board - although she announced the dates in advance.

This particularly affected the period when the expensive purchase of several surgical robots was to be decided.

Source: merkur

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