Johannes Ludewig

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Johannes Ludewig (2008)

Johannes Ludewig (born July 6, 1945 in Hamburg ) is a former German State Secretary and manager . From 1997 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Board of Management of Deutsche Bahn . Ludewig has been chairman of the National Regulatory Control Council since 2006 . The politician Gottfried Ludewig is his son.

Life

education

After graduating from high school in 1965 at the Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg, he did his military service as a reserve officer candidate in the armed forces. From 1967 to 1975 he studied economics at the University of Hamburg , at Stanford University and at the École nationale d'administration in Paris. He received a diploma in Paris in 1971, a Master of Science from Stanford in 1972 and a doctorate in 1974. rer. pole. on the basics for simulation models of entire companies .

Activity in federal ministries

From 1975 to 1983 he worked in the Federal Ministry of Economics in the fields of energy, economic and economic policy, in 1983 the CDU member moved to the Federal Chancellery , where from 1991 he was head of the economic and financial policy department and responsible for coordinating the new federal states. From January 1, 1995 to 1997, Ludewig was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Federal Government Commissioner for the new federal states. Until 1997, Ludewig represented the Federal Ministry of Economics on the administrative board of the Federal Agency for Unification-related Special Tasks .

CEO of Deutsche Bahn

From 1997 to 1999, Ludewig was CEO of Deutsche Bahn AG.

Ludewig was elected chairman of the board on February 26, 1997 by the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn AG in Berlin. He should therefore be appointed to the DB AG executive board on May 1, 1997 and take over its chairmanship on July 9 for an expected two terms (a total of ten years). He was introduced to his office on July 22, 1997 by Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the Berlin Hotel Adlon and took over the post of CEO from Heinz Dürr . He moved to the top of the company's supervisory board.

Ludewig paid particular attention to the punctuality of the trains. Immediately after taking office, he introduced a regulation according to which half of the bonus payments of the 1,600 managers at the time should depend “on the punctuality and precision of rail operations”. In 1997 he announced that he wanted to halve the delays before the timetable change. He later introduced so-called punctuality indicators at large train stations, which were abolished from the beginning of December 1999.

The ICE accident in Eschede (1998) fell during his term of office .

In mid-September 1999, the federal government and the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn AG agreed on the premature replacement of Ludewig and the long-distance board member Axel Nawrocki on September 30, 1999. The main reasons for the personnel decision were the view of the government and the supervisory board that the necessary change in the Companies cannot be created after sales and passenger numbers have stagnated. The supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn AG decided on September 24, 1999 to replace Ludewig with Hartmut Mehdorn and Nawrocki with Christoph Franz . Mehdorn took up his position in mid-December 1999; Chief Financial Officer Diethelm Sack held the provisional position.

Further career

In the spring of 2000, he worked as a consultant for IVG and was involved in the negotiations for Berlin Brandenburg Airport .

From 2002 to 2011 he represented the interests of 62 European railway companies and network operators as Executive Director of the Community of European Railways and Infrastructure Companies (CER) in Brussels.

Ludewig was appointed chairman of the National Regulatory Control Council by the Federal President on September 19, 2006 at the suggestion of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) . Based on the Dutch model, the eight-person committee is supposed to review laws of the federal government for bureaucratic costs for business and administration and advise the government on potential savings. On October 12, 2011 Ludewig was confirmed in his office.

On the 25th anniversary of German reunification, Johannes Ludewig published a book in which he describes the intensive political activities in the Federal Chancellery in the run-up to German reunification in 1990.

Language criticism

In 1999 he was awarded the title Sprachpanscher of the year by the German Language Association for the use of Anglicisms or " Denglisch " (Service Point, Counter, DB Lounge ) in public language.

In 2010, the new head of the railway, Rüdiger Grube, announced that the "Denglisch" would be reduced in the language used by Deutsche Bahn.

Honors

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Announcement New DB CEO elected . In: Schiene , issue 1/1997, ISSN  0932-2574 , p. 14
  2. ^ Message from Johannes Ludewig in office . In: Eisenbahn-Kurier , No. 300, September 1998, ISSN  0170-5288 , p. 5.
  3. ↑ Message from Ludewig: full salary only for trains on time . In: Eisenbahn-Kurier , No. 300, September 1998, ISSN  0170-5288 , p. 5.
  4. ↑ Stefan Schirmer, Claas Tatje: "We fight for every minute every day" . In: The time . No. 44 , October 24, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 , p. 23 ( online ).
  5. ↑ First DB punctuality indicator presented in Frankfurt (Main) . In: Eisenbahn-Kurier , No. 305, February 1998, ISSN  0170-5288 , p. 11.
  6. ↑ Notification of the punctuality indicator gone . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 1/2000, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 2
  7. ↑ Ludewig has to leave early . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 213, 1999, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 1.
  8. ↑ Change from Ludewig to Mehdorn approved . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 222, 1999, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 26.
  9. ↑ Announcement new board members . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 11, year 1999, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 450
  10. ↑ News update shortly . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 5/2000, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 198.
  11. ↑ Chancellor Merkel welcomes new members of the National Regulatory Control Council. Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, September 21, 2011, accessed on October 12, 2011 (press release 344).
  12. ↑ Bahn speaks German ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 16, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de

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SURNAME Ludewig, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German State Secretary and Economic Manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg