Axel Nawrocki

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Axel Nawrocki (born October 5, 1944 ) is a German manager and politician . In the 1990s he became known to the general public through his functions in the context of the application of the city of Berlin for the 2000 Olympic Games and as head of the S-Bahn Berlin GmbH.

Life

Axel Nawrocki (right) at the reopening of the Berlin S-Bahn line Westkreuz - Pichelsberg in 1998 with the then Senator for Transport Jürgen Klemann

Nawrocki studied law and social sciences. 1978 he received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Technical University of Aachen . Nawrocki has been a member of the compulsory student union Corps Silesia Breslau since his studies in Aachen.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Nawrocki worked for the CDU Secretary General and State Chairman of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia , Kurt Biedenkopf . He was head of Biedenkopf's Bonn office and managing director of the CDU parliamentary group in the North Rhine-Westphalian parliament. After working in business, including as a management consultant, he moved to the Treuhandanstalt in Berlin as a manager after the reunification of the GDR .

In December 1991 he was appointed as the successor to Lutz Grüttke, who had been dismissed due to several mishaps, as managing director of Olympia GmbH, which was responsible for Berlin's application for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Right from the start, Nawrocki's appeal to this post met with criticism because of his lack of contact with the world of sports.

Berlin's application for the Olympic Games failed. In the election on September 22, 1993 in Monte Carlo , Berlin received just nine of 88 possible votes. This was preceded by a lot of clumsiness on the part of Olympia GmbH; Among other things, dossiers were created on the members of the International Olympic Committee .

In retrospect, Nawrocki came under fire from the so-called shredder affair , in which files were allegedly destroyed after the failure of the Olympic application. A corresponding court case was discontinued due to a lack of evidence of the existence of a criminal offense. Proceedings due to allegedly excessive severance payments to Nawrocki after he left Olympia GmbH were also discontinued. Nevertheless, the criticism of the work of Olympia GmbH continued on the one hand because of wasted taxpayers' money and on the other hand for technical reasons. This is what the then President of the German Sports Confederation , Manfred von Richthofen , called the Berlin Olympic presentation "amateurish". The establishment of a parliamentary committee of inquiry, which was to investigate the events by the end of 1995, had no consequences.

On January 1, 1994 Nawrocki left Olympia GmbH and became commercial director of the project company of the Berlin S-Bahn, which one year later functioned as S-Bahn Berlin GmbH as an independent organization within Deutsche Bahn (DB AG). Nawrocki remained its managing director until 1998. His calling was controversial from the start. The Berlin Senate criticized the fact that it was not involved in this far-reaching personnel decision.

During his tenure as head of the S-Bahn, various attempts were made to introduce new concepts for the Berlin S-Bahn, which were mostly abandoned after a short time. This included efforts to replace the traditional red and yellow color scheme of the Berlin S-Bahn with a new color concept, the introduction of first class and the sale of food and drinks on the trains.

On May 13, 1998, Nawrocki replaced Heinz Neuhaus as the board member responsible for long-distance transport. On September 24, 1999, the company's supervisory board decided to replace him with Christoph Franz on October 1, 1999 . Together with the then chairman of the board, Johannes Ludewig , Nawrocki was made jointly responsible for the stagnation in passenger numbers and turnover, so that the federal government and the supervisory board of DB AG agreed to replace Ludewig and Nawrocki. Before that, criticism of Nawrocki's behavior had arisen; Among other things, he had passed on railway network maps to known people.

After leaving the management of Deutsche Bahn, Nawrocki initially moved back to his home town of Aachen . From 2002 to 2009 he was a board member of Hansa Luftbild AG .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How the Berlin Olympic Bear passed the grin , Berliner Morgenpost, February 4, 2007
  2. ^ Proceedings against former Olympic boss Nawrocki discontinued , Berliner Zeitung, March 2, 1994
  3. ↑ Senate instruction “Olympia GmbH” meets with criticism , Berliner Zeitung, December 15, 1994
  4. ^ Diepgen: Destruction of files was political stupidity , Berliner Zeitung, June 30, 1995
  5. ↑ Axel Nawrocki on the sidelines - the ex-Olympic applicant was always controversial , Tagesspiegel, September 14, 1999
  6. ^ Nawrocki started work , Berliner Zeitung, January 7, 1994
  7. ↑ Berlin S-Bahn will soon run first class , Berliner Zeitung, September 5, 1995
  8. ^ With the Eß-Bahn from Berlin to Potsdam , Berliner Zeitung, March 6, 1996
  9. ^ "S-Presso" gives up , Berliner Zeitung, May 28, 1997
  10. ^ Announcement of the balance sheet press conference of DB AG . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 7/8, 1998, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 296
  11. ↑ Announcement new board members . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 11, year 1999, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 450
  12. ↑ Always scandalized again , September 14, Manager-Magazin 1999
  13. ^ Bahn: Justice checks allocation of network cards , Berliner Zeitung, December 4, 1998.
  14. ↑ What is Axel Nawrocki actually doing? , Manager Magazine 1/2003
  15. ↑ Axel Nawrocki 60 years in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 3, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Nawrocki, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU) and manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1944