Berlin It is the comeback of the still young year. The Administrative Board of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) has elected Andrea Nahles as the new Chairwoman of the Board of the Nuremberg authority.
The former Federal Minister of Labor and SPD leader, who has been President of the Federal Post and Telecommunications Agency since August 2020, is to succeed Detlef Scheele, who is retiring at the end of March. This is what the board of directors, made up of employer and employee representatives, decided at its meeting on Tuesday. The Federal Cabinet still has to approve the personnel.
This emerges from a statement by the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations and the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) on Tuesday. The federal government still has to approve the personal details.
“Discussions are being held with Andrea Nahles as CEO, proposed by the employee group, Dr. Katrin Krömer and Vanessa Ahuja as board members, proposed by the employers’ group,” it said. These people would have to be elected by the board of directors and all the groups represented there. The former SPD leader and Federal Minister of Labor Nahles would thus succeed BA boss Detlef Scheele.
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The aim of the social partners and the representatives of the public bank when filling the future BA board is to set up a team that is prepared for the extraordinary challenges. In the case of the people proposed by the social partners, this was achieved in cooperation with Daniel Terzenbach, who will ensure continuity on the board after the retirement of long-standing board members Detlef Scheele and Christiane Schönefeld.
Christina Ramb, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the BA and representative of the Employers’ Bank, explained: “We are very pleased that we are working with Dr. Katrin Krömer and Vanessa Ahuja, two proven experts in personnel and labor market policy.” Together with Nahles and Terzenbach, the board is up to the enormous challenges that the authority has to face.
Left politics after the European elections
Anja Piel, Chairwoman of the Administrative Board of the BA, explained for the DGB: “With Andrea Nahles at the helm, with Dr. With Katrin Krömer, Vanessa Ahuja and Daniel Terzenbach as social partners, we have found a competent, managerial and highly motivated team. From overcoming the Corona crisis to shaping structural change and transformation to digitization and a shortage of skilled workers – the management team is ideally positioned for all these tasks with experience and a common will to shape things.”
Nahles took over the presidency of the SPD in April 2018. However, she only held the office until June 2, 2019 – as a result of several weak election results for her party with the historically poor performance in the 2019 European elections as a negative highlight, Nahles resigned with immediate effect. On October 14, 2019, she finally announced her Bundestag mandate for November 1.
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