Norbert Hansen

Norbert Hansen (born July 2, 1952 in Husum ) is a former German trade unionist . He was until 31 May 2009. Board member staff in the Executive Board of Deutsche Bahn AG .

Career

After graduating from secondary school, Hansen joined the Deutsche Bundesbahn as a young worker in 1967 . Until 1972 he continued his education as a federal railway assistant and then worked as a ticket seller and as a shunter.

After joining the railway workers' union GdED (Union of Railway Workers in Germany), he headed the GdED staff council at Büchen station . In 1979 he became a full-time employee of the union. First he worked as a local secretary in Hamburg , in 1980 he was appointed secretary of the district management. In 1991 he was promoted to district manager in Hamburg, and in the following year he moved to Frankfurt am Main as board member for tariff issues. In 1996 he was appointed deputy chairman of the GdED.

On March 30, 1999 he was elected chairman of the GdED with 96.6% at the trade union day of the GdED, which renamed itself in 2000 in Transnet . At the trade union day on November 9, 2004, he was re-elected for another four years with 93.1%.

On July 5, 2000, Hansen was confirmed in his position as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DB AG.

He was Deputy Chairman (employee representative) on the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG . He was honorary chairman of Allianz pro Schiene , member of the federal board of the DGB , president of the railway section in the European transport workers ' federation ( ETF ) and chairman of the supervisory board in various companies of the DEVK ( Deutsche Eisenbahn Versicherung ).

According to media reports, around 2005 Hansen was earning € 7,800 gross per month.

Hansen is a member of the SPD .

Change to Deutsche Bahn AG

On May 8, 2008, Hansen announced his resignation as Transnet chairman. On May 15, the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG appointed him Labor Director . The board member Margret Suckale , who was previously responsible for law and personnel , has moved to the newly founded DB Mobility & Logistics AG as board member for personnel and services . According to his own statements, DB supervisory board boss Werner Müller and SPD boss Kurt Beck Hansen asked whether he could imagine working for the company as HR director. He wanted to discuss this proposal with Transnet, but the information about a possible change had become public prematurely through a "targeted indiscretion". Hansen saw his new role as an opportunity to “bring in the interests of the employees even more.” His remuneration for his work in fiscal year 2008 (June 1 to December 31, 2008) amounted to 556,000 euros, of which 233,000 euros were fixed and 315,000 euros variable .

After Rüdiger Grube , a new chairman of the board, had been appointed on May 1, 2009, Hansen offered, according to DB, the early resignation of his board member. The company's Supervisory Board approved his dismissal on May 31, 2009 at an extraordinary meeting on May 13, 2009. Hansen was ill for a long time and a recovery was not in sight. On May 1, 2009, Grube was appointed the new CEO of Deutsche Bahn AG and restructured the board after the data affair . With him, three other board members were dismissed ( Otto Wiesheu , Norbert Bensel and Margret Suckale ).

In the 2009 financial year, Hansen received fixed remuneration of 167,000 euros, variable remuneration of 300,000 euros and a severance payment of 2.256 million euros. In addition, he received a BahnCard 100 for life. Ulrich Weber was appointed as Hansen's successor on May 25, 2009, effective July 1, 2009 .

criticism

Even as a trade unionist, Hansen was considered a friend of the railway boss Hartmut Mehdorn . His ambivalent relationship to the company - on the one hand employee representatives and on the other hand supporter of key employer positions (e.g. the intended partial privatization through an IPO ) - was the subject of public criticism. He was accused of having made it possible for the Social Democrats to agree to the partial privatization of the railway at their party congress in 2007 and subsequently by presenting a supportive position by the Transnet union towards the SPD. As a reaction to Hansen's move to his new position, which was perceived as “betrayal”, there was increasing resistance at the base of Transnet to the union's social partnership course.

While other companies (such as Deutsche Post AG ) have also recruited HR directors from union ranks, Hansen's years of campaigning for an IPO is a specialty.

Private

Hansen has been married since 1973 and lives in Hamburg. He has one grown son and one grown daughter.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement new DB supervisory board . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 8–9 / 2000, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 338.
2. ↑ Jörn Sucher: Ver.di published, IG Bau masonry . In: SpOn of August 11, 2005 .
3. ↑ Hansen resigns as union chairman - Transnet boss changes sides ( Memento from December 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ Deutsche Bahn AG: Board of Management of Deutsche Bahn AG on the new group structure . Press release from May 9, 2008.
5. ↑ "I stand for pragmatism" . In: DB Welt , September 2008 edition, p. 5.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Sawn-off railway managers take severance payments with them . In: Die Welt , May 13, 2009.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Deutsche Bahn AG (Ed.): Annual Report 2009 PDF file , (5.9 MB), pp. 11, 15, 31 f.
8. ^ Opponent and companion for Mehdorn . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 4, 2007 .
9. ^ "Transnet members are angry and disappointed" . In: Junge Welt from August 4, 2008
10. ↑ Flexibility in the workplace ( memento of the original from December 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 30, 2009