Rüdiger Grube

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Rüdiger Grube at the 2013 electromobility summit in Berlin
In March 2010 at the Finne Tunnel

Rüdiger Grube (born August 2, 1951 in Hamburg ) is a German manager and functionary . From May 2009 to January 2017 he was CEO of Deutsche Bahn AG . Until August 2016, he was also Chairman of the Management Board of the (now dissolved) DB Mobility Logistics AG . Grube was or is a member of several supervisory boards, boards of trustees or foundation boards.

Life

Grube's parents were fruit growers in Moorburg , they ran a farm. They divorced when Grube was five years old. According to his own statements, his mother, brother and he then ran the parental farm alone.

Training, studies

After visiting the high school made mine - against his mother's wishes and despite poor marks - a high-school diploma . To switch to secondary school, he repeated the ninth grade. In 1970 he then completed a commercial and technical apprenticeship as a metal aircraft manufacturer at the Hamburg Aircraft Construction Company (HFB), which belongs to Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB ). He was a youth spokesman and was active in IG Metall . The wife of the HFB managing director Werner Blohm became aware of Grube after an article about organ donation through an apprentice newspaper he had set up . He offered Grube to finance his studies with 300 D-Marks per month. Blohm made it a condition that Grube had to present his certificates and work for him during the holidays.

Grube studied at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg , the specialty automotive and aviation technology with the completion of a graduate engineer (FH). In 1975 he studied vocational and business education at the University of Hamburg . Then Grube worked as a vocational school teacher at a trade school in Hamburg.

From 1981 to 1986, Grube worked as a lecturer in the field of production technology at the University of Hamburg . He received his doctorate in 1986 from the University of Kassel with a dissertation on the subject of the effects of new manufacturing technologies in aircraft construction on initial vocational training in the commercial-technical field . After completing his dissertation, he started his own business as a consultant for new technologies. He worked for Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, among others.

Employed at MBB, DASA, Daimler a. a.

From 1989 Grube worked as a business area manager for diversification and new technologies at MBB.

On December 6, 1990 (according to another source: December 6, 1989) Grube got to know the board member Hartmut Mehdorn and from then on worked for him as an office manager. At that time Mehdorn was the head of the management of Deutsche Airbus GmbH in Hamburg. He was also Grube's best man . In 1992, Grube became responsible for DASA's Ottobrunn location . In 1994 he became head of aviation staff and in 1995 director of corporate planning and technology at DASA.

Jürgen Schrempp later appointed Grube director for technology and planning at DASA. In 1996 he became head of corporate strategy at Daimler-Benz AG and later DaimlerChrysler AG. In 1999, Grube left the group and became managing director of the Stuttgart Häussler Group, but returned to DaimlerChrysler after a few months at Jürgen Schrempp's request. In 2000 he received the post of Senior Vice President Corporate Development at DaimlerChrysler. In 2001 he became a member of the Board of Management responsible for corporate development at DaimlerChrysler AG, or today Daimler AG. In this function he was also responsible for the China business, from October 1, 2005 for the newly merged Northeast Asia region .

Previous mandates

Grube was a member of the following supervisory boards and management bodies: Chairman of the Board of Directors of DaimlerChrysler China Limited, Beijing; Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Beijing Benz DaimlerChrysler Automotive (BBDC-A); Member of the Board of Directors of McLaren Group Ltd; on the Supervisory Board of DaimlerChrysler Financial Services AG; in the Advisory Committee of DaimlerChrysler Fleet Management; in the Advisory Committee of DaimlerChrysler Aviation; Member of the supervisory board of the Hamburg Port Authority Establishment of Public Law (HPA) - until June 30, 2009; on the Supervisory Board of Chrysler LLC and Chairman of the Board of Directors of EADS BV, Amsterdam.

Areas of activity and responsibility at Daimler and EADS

Grube was a confidante of Jürgen Schrempp and with him a representative of the today heavily criticized and again terminated "Welt-AG" at Daimler. He prepared, operated and defended the merger with Chrysler. It was generally expected that he and Schrempp would also leave the group because of this past; However, this was not the case: As the person responsible for corporate development, he carried out the separation of Mitsubishi, Hyundai and Chrysler.

CEO of Deutsche Bahn

After Hartmut Mehdorn offered to resign from his position as CEO on March 30, 2009 in the course of the " data affair " at Deutsche Bahn AG , Grube was one of the possible successors. Mehdorn recommended Chancellor Angela Merkel early on as his successor.

After Chancellor Merkel and Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier had agreed in advance on Grube as a possible candidate to succeed Mehdorn, the Federal Ministry of Transport announced on April 2, 2009 that Transport Minister Tiefensee would propose Rüdiger Grube to the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG as the new chairman of the board . On April 25, 2009, the Supervisory Board appointed him as Chairman of the Management Board of Deutsche Bahn AG and DB Mobility Logistics AG with effect from May 1, 2009 . He adopted Hartmut Mehdorn's contractual conditions. His contract initially ran until spring 2014.

In the opinion of the Transport Committee of the German Bundestag, Grube had a "successful start". On his first visit, Grube, according to the FDP transport politician Horst Friedrich , apologized “on behalf of the railway for the bad relations with the transport committee in recent years”. As CEO of the company, Grube said he was open-minded and skeptical about the planned capital privatization . He wanted to improve the relationship with the employee representatives and "unconditionally clear up" the data protection allegations made against his predecessor.

On December 9, 2009, the company's supervisory board expanded Grube's competencies. The previous functions of economy and politics , transport policy and regulation as well as group representatives of the federal states fell to him.

During the first months as head of the railway, among other things, the entire rest of the group's board of directors (with one exception) was replaced and the management of the Berlin S-Bahn suspended. In contrast to his predecessor Hartmut Mehdorn, Grube is considered diplomatic. According to a press report, Grube had a very good relationship with Peter Ramsauer (Federal Minister of Transport in the Merkel II cabinet ).

On December 12, 2012, the Supervisory Board appointed Grube early for another five years as a member of the Management Board with effect from January 1, 2013 and reappointed him as Chairman of the Management Board. At the same time, his previous contract was canceled. As CEO, Grube received remuneration of EUR 2.661 million in the 2012 financial year, including a fixed salary of EUR 900,000. Grue's salary was set to rise at the start of his second five-year contract. After discussions about the appropriateness of his salary had started in March 2014, Grube said he waived this increase.

According to his own statements in 2012 and 2016, he receives between 1,000 and 3,000 letters of praise or criticism every day. He pulls out eight to ten letters a day and calls the authors personally. According to his own information (2011), he speaks to two to three customers himself every day. According to his own information from 2015, he receives 1,000 emails sent to him on normal days. He answered five to eight of these himself.

During Grube's tenure, there were interlocking problems at Mainz main station , the liberalization of long-distance bus traffic , increasing cost and schedule overruns at Stuttgart 21 and a crisis at DB Cargo . Grube has often not achieved its own goals, for example reducing debt to 10 billion euros (now almost 18 billion euros) or increasing sales to 70 billion euros by 2020.

On the 15th anniversary of the train accident in Eschede , Grube apologized to the victims and their relatives for the human suffering caused on behalf of the railway.

Grube's contract, which expires on December 31, 2017, should be extended at the Supervisory Board meeting on January 30, 2017. According to a press report, Grube wanted to convince influential politicians of this extension almost every week. Incidentally, Ronald Pofalla Grube should follow in two to three years. Pofalla had advocated Grube's contract extension with the federal government, and Grube should build Pofalla as his successor. From 2019/2020, Pofalla is considered to be the likely successor of Grube and his favorite. On January 27, 2017, the Supervisory Board's Personnel Committee decided to extend Grube's contract by three years until the end of 2020. In previous discussions, Grube had already waived a salary increase and severance pay in the event of an early departure. A few days before the meeting, Federal Transport Minister Dobrindt had informed Grube by telephone that the contract extension had been secured. At the Supervisory Board meeting on January 30, 2017, a decision was made to extend the contract by three years. Jürgen Großmann asked whether such a contract extension was justified in view of Grube's age (65 years). After other representatives of the shareholder side of the Supervisory Board joined this position, the employee side emphasized that they would not agree to a contract extension if the shareholders did not agree. As a result, the government representatives would only have two years of contract extension in prospect. Brigitte Zypries was missing on the shareholder side with reference to her new ministerial office. Some members of the supervisory board felt they had been left out of the previous political agreements to extend contracts, especially since the draft resolution was only sent on the weekend before the meeting. In addition, the supervisory board meeting was poorly prepared and poorly moderated, which is why a lengthy discussion about the previously discussed decision arose. Grube then stepped back. The supervisory board unanimously agreed to Grube's request to rescind his appointment as DB CEO with immediate effect and to terminate his current contract by means of a dissolution agreement. The chairman of the supervisory board was charged with negotiating the termination of the contract. The Chief Financial Officer Richard Lutz took over the chairmanship on a provisional basis . On March 22, 2017, Lutz was appointed as Grube's successor as CEO.

In 2017, Grube received a severance payment of 2.251 million euros. Andreas Scheuer (CSU), Transport Minister in the Merkel IV cabinet and thus successor to Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), criticized the amount of the severance payment. The Federal Court of Auditors considers the payment to be inadmissible because Grube unilaterally terminated his management contract. Regardless of this, the amount of the sum is also not justified. Grube itself considers the payment to be justified.

Further professional career

Grube announced that it would make a decision about his professional future after a hundred days to think about it. In February 2017, Rüdiger Grube International Business Leadership GmbH was entered in the commercial register. The company, based in Hamburg's Abteistrasse, is to advise medium-sized companies in the future.

On August 1, 2017, Grube formally left Deutsche Bahn. Grube is to become chairman for German investment banking at Lazard , a purely advisory investment bank. On August 1, 2017, he wants to open a management consultancy for medium-sized companies at the same time. At the same time he became chairman of the advisory board of the logistics group Paul Schockemöhle .

Supervisory board mandates

Grube was chairman of the supervisory board of DB Netz AG and a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Eisenbahn Versicherung Lebensversicherungsverein a. G. and DEVK Deutsche Eisenbahn Versicherung Sach- und HUK-Versicherungsverein a. G. He is also on the advisory boards of Allianz SE and Deutsche Bank AG - Stuttgart business region.

He turned down a post on the EADS Board of Directors that was offered to him at the end of 2012 .

In June 2017, Grube took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik . In November 2018 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of RIB Software .

In 2019, Grube was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bombardier Transportation Germany.

Others

Grube has two grown children from his first marriage, a daughter. On August 8, 2015, he married TV cook Cornelia Poletto for the second time . The then Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was the best man .

Grube lived in Gechingen near Stuttgart around 2012 . He was divorced at the time and was in a relationship with Poletto. They met on a talk show.

Grube does not belong to any party, but is considered to be close to the SPD .

Since June 2009 he has been a member of the board of the Reading Foundation . Grube was appointed to the Presidium of the BDI on January 1, 2011, for the years 2011 and 2012 . He is the patron of Off Road Kids . He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the German National Foundation since 2013 .

In August 2010, he signed the Energy Policy Appeal as one of 40 prominent signatories .

He was a member of a more than 30-member commission of the Federal Ministry of Transport, which was supposed to show ways by autumn 2014 to implement large-scale infrastructure projects on schedule and within budget.

In 2012 he received the passenger award of the Pro Bahn passenger association for “rediscovering the bread and butter business at Deutsche Bahn AG”.

According to his own statements, he was not trusted to graduate from high school as a child. This led him to special efforts. According to his own statements (summer 2012), he is planning to set up a foundation to finance secondary school students training or studying. A financing cycle is to be created in which sponsored persons, if they later have a high income, repay money to the foundation (status: July 2012). This foundation now exists.

Grube is a board member of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft . Grube is also part of the Presidential Council and deputy chairman of the Björn Steiger Foundation .

According to his own statements, he runs for about an hour (ten kilometers) every morning, sometimes half marathons at the weekend . He ran a marathon in 3 hours and 26 minutes. He says he goes sailing regularly.

In 2012, Grube was made an honorary senator of the University of Stuttgart “in recognition of his 20 years of personal commitment and the generous support of the next generation of engineers and research at the University of Stuttgart”. In November 2012 he was awarded the Golden Victoria for Integration . In May 2016 he received the “Star of Security”, the Bavarian State Medal for Internal Security .

In 2013, he announced that he had received 21 death threats because of Stuttgart . In 2016, according to Der Spiegel , Grube said he “would not have made Stuttgart 21”, at least “not under these conditions”. This was his clearest distancing from the project to date. A little later he relativized his statements.

On November 1, 2017, Grube was made an honorary professor at the Technical University of Hamburg . He has been a lecturer at the university since winter semester 2014.

In March 2018 it was reported that Grube received € 2.3 million in severance payments from DB in 2017.

In June 2018, Grube took over the patronage of the Harburg-Huus, a day stay and overnight accommodation for homeless people run by the DRK Hamburg-Harburg.

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Individual evidence

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