Sigrid Nikutta

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Sigrid Nikutta (2019)

Sigrid Evelyn Nikutta (born April 1, 1969 in Szczytno , Poland ) is a German manager .

As a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Bahn , she has been responsible for the freight transport department and chairwoman of the board of DB Cargo since January 2020 .

Since October 2010 she was previously CEO of Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). Until 2019 she was also the director of operations. Nikutta is the first woman to head BVG in the company's history.

Career

Eight weeks after she was born, Nikutta's parents moved from Poland to Herford . Sigrid Nikutta grew up in Enger in East Westphalia . She studied psychology with a focus on work, industrial and organizational psychology with a minor in education at Bielefeld University and received her doctorate in psychology from LMU Munich in 2009 .

Previous career with Deutsche Bahn

From 1993 she worked in the management of a medium-sized company in Bielefeld before moving to Deutsche Bahn in 1996 . At first she headed an education center in Saxony and from then on held numerous management positions in the education sector. In 2001 she became HR manager at DB Cargo , in the rail freight transport division of Deutsche Bahn. She took over the management of production and became spokeswoman for the management of the block train transport division in Mainz. In her last position, she was Head of Production at the Polish Schenker subsidiary DB Cargo Polska (then DB Schenker Rail Polska) in Zabrze .

Berlin transport company

On May 28, 2010 she was elected by the supervisory board of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) as chairman of the board and operations board and took office on October 1. On January 1, 2013, her contract was prematurely extended for a further five years. Since August 19, 2011, Nikutta has also been chairman of the supervisory board of BT Berlin Transport GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of BVG.

In 2012 she was awarded the “Mestemacher Manager of the Year” award from the Mestemacher large bakery and in 2011 was included in the list of “25 Top Business Women” by the Financial Times Deutschland .

It is Nikutta's merit that under her leadership, BVG has achieved positive operating results for the first time in decades. Since taking office, the number of passenger trips has increased from 922 million to over 1.1 billion trips. The number of employees rose from 10,140 to 14,700 in the same period. However, the number of trip cancellations at BVG has increased dramatically in recent years. In the meantime, due to the predominantly old and insufficient number of subways, the timetable had to be thinned out despite the increasing number of passengers, and more and more subway trips are canceled. Transport researchers blame the failed acquisition policy of the Berlin Senate, against which Nikutta did not act with the necessary energy. Employees also accuse her of having an obscure personnel policy. The largest contract in the company's history for the purchase of subway cars awarded to Stadler in 2019 was intended to provide relief. The unsuccessful bidder Alstom brought an action against the award before the Berlin Court of Appeal.

In 2011, in her first full year at BVG, Nikutta received a salary of 325,000 euros as the chairman of the board of the national company. In 2015, she earned 481,000 euros, in 2018, according to media reports, she earned 496,900 euros, making it third on the country's entire payroll.

The BVG board was redesigned in 2019. In addition to being chairman of the board, Nikutta took over the areas of finance, digitization and sales and in return handed over the operations area to the newly appointed board member Rolf Erfurt.

Nikutta's successor as BVG CEO will be Eva Kreienkamp on October 1, 2020 .

Board member for freight transport at DB

Nikutta was appointed to the Board of Management of Deutsche Bahn on November 8, 2019, with effect from January 1, 2020. There she will take over the new freight transport department as well as the chairmanship of DB Cargo AG. Nikutta's appointment to the board of directors of Deutsche Bahn had previously been considered for several years. According to supervisory board circles, it failed because of resistance from Richard Lutz and Ronald Pofalla . The decision on their appointment is largely due to Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer .

Memberships

Sigrid Nikutta is Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute for Railway Technology (IFB) and is a member of the Presidia of the German Transport Forum (DVF) and the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV). She heads the VDV's Eastern Regional Group and is a policy board member of the International Association for Public Transport (French: L'Union Internationale des Transports Publics (UITP)). Nikutta is also a member of the Presidium of the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists (VBKI) and a member of the Senate of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Private

Sigrid Nikutta is married and has two sons and three daughters. Her brother Jörg Nikutta has been head of Germany at Alstom since 2017.

literature

  • Andrea Och, Katharina Daniels: Lust for power. How (not only) women get to the top! Linde, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7093-0493-8 , pp. 62–63. (Contribution “Say it out loud: I can do that!” By Sigrid Evelyn Nikutta).
  • Vivien Gröning, Kirsten Sass: Woman @ Work: Paths after the Abitur - How women make careers today. 22 interviews with successful women. Expert, Renningen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8169-3237-6 , pp. 142–148. (Interview with Sigrid Nikutta).
  • Why women in particular need role models [interview with Sigrid Nikutta]. In: Isabel Rohner , Rebecca Beerheide (ed.): 100 years of women's suffrage: goal achieved! … and further? Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Sulzbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-89741-398-6 , pp. 119–128.

Newspaper articles

  • Sigrid Nikutta has a tough mission. In: Der Tagesspiegel. March 2020 (portrait tagesspiegel.de ).
  • Inga Michler: “I don't want to build a subway”. The quota for women on supervisory boards in large corporations has been decided. Now decision-makers like the BVG boss Nikutta are working to dispel concerns in practice. In: The world. March 20, 2015 ( welt.de ).
  • Nora Schmidt: Sigrid Nikutta. A BVG boss who balances work and family. In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 17, 2015 ( morgenpost.de ).
  • Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach: A woman will be running the transport company from October. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 14, 2010 ( tagesspiegel.de ).
  • Peter Neumann: The backbreaking job goes to a woman. In: Berliner Zeitung . May 14, 2010 ( berliner-zeitung.de ).
  • Klaus Kurpjuweit: Woman leads BVG - with a “bouquet of measures”. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 28, 2010 ( tagesspiegel.de ).

Web links

Commons : Sigrid Nikutta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DB supervisory board decides on new board structure and billions in investment in new trains. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, November 7, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ New board member for operations at BVG. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Fülling: BVG - New board to improve daily bus and train operations. December 13, 2018, accessed August 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Claas Tatje: "It burns wherever I go" . In: The time . No. 20 , May 7, 2020, p. 26 ( online ).
  5. ↑ SE Nikutta: In management at 60 - board member or old iron? A qualitative study on the self-assessment of executives in top management. Dissertation. LMU, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Munich 2009.
  6. ↑ BVG - Dr. Sigrid Evelyn Nikutta - CEO and Chief Operating Officer
  7. ↑ Press release Mestemacher Group from September 14, 2012: Dr. This year Sigrid Evelyn Nikutta receives the prestigious MESTEMACHER PRIZE MANAGER OF THE YEAR ( Memento from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Gerald Traufetter: Dead Track . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 2019, p. 60-64 ( online ).
  9. ↑ BVG - press release of April 27, 2015 "BVG without loss for the first time - debt reduced"
  10. ↑ a b Stefan Jacobs: At BVG, things are going even worse than expected. In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 10, 2019, accessed August 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 2011 figures, December 31, 2010, accessed on September 23, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Figures for 2019, December 31, 2018, accessed on September 23, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Not enough cars: Berliners now have to wait longer for the subway. January 30, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ Peter Neumann: Berliner Nahverkehr: The BVG is getting more and more trips canceled. In: Berliner Zeitung. September 30, 2019, accessed on October 7, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ Despite major problems, BVG boss Sigrid Nikutta wants to stay. In: Berliner Zeitung. February 14, 2019, accessed August 22, 2019 .
  16. ↑ RBB Inforadio: Large BVG order for new subway cars is further delayed. August 20, 2019. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Senate Department for Finance: Participation Report 2012 (2011 financial year), Volume 1, p. 67 (PDF)
  18. ↑ Senate Department for Finance: Participation Report 2016 (2015 financial year), p. 68 (PDF)
  19. ↑ Hildburg Bruns: BZ reveals how much more the Berlin bosses earn. In: BZ. May 7, 2018, accessed September 13, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Subway crisis: BVG boss Nikutta is rebuilding the board. In: rbb24. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Thomas Fülling: BVG gets its own board of directors. In: Berliner Morgenpost. May 25, 2019, accessed September 23, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Kreienkamp successor Sigrid Nikutta . In: The Railway Engineer . tape 71 , no. 6 , June 2020, p. 69 .
  23. ↑ Second woman on the executive floor . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 2019, pp. 52 ( online - February 16, 2019 ).
  24. ↑ Sven Böll: Two hopefuls should save the railway. In: wiwo.de. February 15, 2019, accessed February 28, 2019 .
  25. ^ Bahn appoints Sigrid Nikutta, Scheuer fails with the expulsion of Chief Financial Officer Doll. In: manager-magazin.de. November 7, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Kerstin Schwenn: Good reputation and bad numbers . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 168 , July 22, 2020, ISSN  0174-4909 , p. 22 .
  27. ↑ BVG boss Sigrid Nikutta is expecting her fifth child. In: Berliner Morgenpost. February 10, 2016, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  28. ↑ A girl: BVG boss Sigrid Nikutta mother for the fifth time. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Peter Neumann: Alstom sues BVG: bulk purchase for new Berlin subway continues on hold. August 20, 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nikutta, Sigrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nikutta, Sigrid Evelyn (full name); Nikutta, Evelyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 1st 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczytno , Poland