Rainer Schwarz (airport manager)

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Rainer Schwarz (born December 11, 1956 in Essen ) is a German airport manager. From 2006 to 2013 he was Speaker of the Board of Berlin Airports . Before that he was managing director of Nuremberg Airport and Chairman of the Management Board of Düsseldorf Airport and then Managing Director of Rostock-Laage Airport .

On February 1, 2017, he took over the management of Münster / Osnabrück Airport .

education

After graduating from high school, he studied business administration from 1975 to 1981 at the University of Paderborn, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Connecticut , USA. He graduated with the degree of Diplom-Kaufmann from. 1987 doctorate he attended the University of Bayreuth Dr. rer. pole. After teaching assignments at RWTH Aachen University and the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau , he received the title of honorary professor from the Technical University of Wildau in 2008 .

Professional activity

From 1983 to 1984 Schwarz worked as a research assistant at the University of Bayreuth at the Chair for Finance and Banking Management. He was then managing director of the business research center for medium-sized businesses in Bayreuth until 1988, before he worked at Munich Airport from 1988 to 1996 : first as department head of the main finance and accounting department, then as department head within the main marketing and sales department and finally as Head of Marketing and Sales.

In 1996 he moved to Nuremberg Airport as managing director . By 2001 the number of passengers in Nuremberg rose by 50% to 3.3 million, after Schwarz had succeeded in building a tourist hub together with Air Berlin.

In 2001 he took on a position as managing director at Düsseldorf Airport and in 2002 was promoted to chairman of the management board. During his time in Düsseldorf, he rebuilt the terminal infrastructure after the fire and established entrepreneurial structures in the operating companies, the first German public-private partnership in the airport sector.

On June 1, 2006, he was appointed management spokesman (comparable to a chairman of the board ) of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH . At the end of 2010, his contract was extended by five years until the end of 2016.

He was responsible for the operation of the three airports Tegel, Tempelhof and Schönefeld. Through the initiation of extensive efficiency measures and the closure of the high-loss Tempelhof Airport, the net inflow from Berlin airports doubled to 90 million euros by 2012. The airport operations contributed over half a billion euros to the construction of the new airport. In the same period, the number of passengers grew by 50% to 24 million.

After three postponements of the opening date for the new capital city airport due to structural defects, Schwarz - although not responsible for the construction sector - was initially on leave in January 2013 and terminated in June 2013.

Schwarz complained against it. In total, it was about 1.2 million euros.

The Berlin Regional Court gave Schwarz in October 2014 "a judgment that leaves little to be desired in terms of clarity ... right in all points" and declared the termination to be ineffective. There was “no important reason for termination”, and Black “made no serious mistakes”. Instead - and this is where the judge’s ruling becomes politically explosive - the supervisory board is partly to blame for the BER debacle that continues to this day. Since February 2012 at the latest, the supervisory board, which includes representatives from Brandenburg, Berlin and the federal government, had known that the airport could not go into operation as planned, but, if at all, only as a temporary measure without a functioning fire protection concept.

The Flughafengesellschaft Berlin-Brandenburg appealed the judgment within the deadline and withdrew the appeal shortly afterwards. The judgment has been final since then.

On December 4, 2014, Schwarz testified before the BER investigative committee of the Berlin House of Representatives , which was supposed to further clarify the causes of the airport mismanagement. He could not remember earlier warnings from external experts about deadline and cost risks at BER. He denied any complicity in the delays.

Since December 1, 2014, Schwarz has been managing director of Rostock-Laage Airport . In relation to 2014, the airport expected annual passenger numbers to grow by almost 50 percent by 2016. Since February 1, 2017 he has been the managing director at Münster / Osnabrück Airport .

Other offices

From 1995 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Marketing and Commercial Strategy Committee, Airports Council International (ACI - Europe) (European Airport Association).
From 1996 to 2013 he was a member of the Presidium and Board of Directors of the German Airports Working Group (ADV).
From 2002 to 2010 he was a member of the “German Aerospace Center (DLR)” Senate.
From 2008 to 2014 he was a member of the Presidium of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry (BTW) and a member of the Supervisory Board of Berlin Tourismus u. Congress GMBH.
From 2009 to 2014 he worked as a member of the Advisory Board East of HDI Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG and as a member of the Regional Advisory Board East of Commerzbank AG.

Private life

Rainer Schwarz is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from February 1, 2017
  2. ^ Rainer Schwarz: The listing publicity of newly issuing companies . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1988. ISBN 3-631-40614-2 . (Published in: Business research contributions, Vol. 6. At the same time dissertation at the University of Bayreuth, 1987.)
  3. ^ "Supervisory board chairman Beckstein regrets the change of managing director Rainer Schwarz to Düsseldorf". In Nürnberger Zeitung No. 171, July 26, 2001
  4. ↑ Eberhard Krummheuer: "Before departure - Rainer Schwarz takes over as head of the future major Berlin airport". In: Handelsblatt No. 104, May 31, 2006
  5. ↑ Silke Kersting: Overstrained with the office . In: Handelsblatt . No. 12 , January 17, 2013, ISSN  0017-7296 , p. 47 .
  6. ↑ Rainer Schwarz appointed as the new head of Berlin Airports ( memento of the original from August 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / preview.berlin-airport.de 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. . Press release from Berlin Airports on December 9, 2005 (contains résumé), accessed on January 7, 2009.
  7. ↑ a b "Tegel ensures goodbye record numbers". In: Berliner Morgenpost, April 25, 2012
  8. ↑ Silke Kerstling: Deep fall . In: Handelsblatt . No. 86 , May 6, 2013, ISSN  0017-7296 , p. 5 .
  9. ↑ a b c Thomas Fülling: BER: Ex-boss gets another 1.2 million . In: Berliner Morgenpost . No. 290 , October 24, 2014, ZDB -ID 749437-3 , p. 1 ( online ).
  10. ↑ a b c “Termination of ex-BER boss ineffective according to the court ruling.” Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, October 23, 2014 ( online ( memento of the original from January 18, 2016 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 note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maz-online.de
  11. ↑ Appeal to the district court - the airport company does not want to resign Schwarz without a fight. rbb aktuell, December 15, 2014, accessed on December 15, 2014 .
  12. ↑ The verdict can be accessed here.
  13. ↑ “The Swiss also fly to Rostock” Ostsee-Zeitung, April 8, 2016, page 9, online .
  14. ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung from February 1, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Black, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German airport manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH eat