Tag: Richard Lutz
Lindner saves on the railway network
Berlin Deutsche Bahn AG will receive far less money than planned from the federal government to modernize the rail network. As the Handelsblatt learned from government circles, the federal company…
Volkswagen manager Nicole Mommsen is changing at the head of DB communications
Nicole Mommsen The expert in corporate communications studied regional studies, political science, law and journalism. (Photo: Volkswagen AG) Dusseldorf A high-profile automobile manager is taking over the communications of Deutsche…
The federal government wants to support the renovation of the railway network with billions
Construction site The federal government and the railways had agreed to fundamentally rehabilitate heavily used rail routes. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In the future, the federal government wants to contribute far…
Union EVG threatens the railway with weeks of strikes
Cologne Central Station during a strike The EVG had already twice called for strikes in the collective bargaining dispute. (Photo: IMAGO/NurPhoto) Berlin According to a media report, the railway union…
Union EVG threatens the railway with weeks of strikes
Cologne Central Station during a strike The EVG had already twice called for strikes in the collective bargaining dispute. (Photo: IMAGO/NurPhoto) Berlin According to a media report, the railway union…
Bahn boss expects operational loss of billions in 2023 and wants to “change course”
Richard Lutz The head of Deutsche Bahn wants to “take a completely different approach to the renovation and modernization of the infrastructure”. (Photo: dpa) Deutsche Bahn boss Richard Lutz expects…
Deutsche Bahn boss Lutz invites you to slack off
DB CEO Richard Lutz Economic operation only plays a “subordinate role” for the railway boss. (Photo: dpa) As head of group controlling, today’s head of rail, Richard Lutz, made a…
Richard Lutz receives significant salary increase
Richard Lutz 90,000 euros more: Bahn boss Richard Lutz waves a significant salary increase. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Blockages, delayed or canceled trains: the anger at Deutsche Bahn has never been…
Olaf Scholz earns less than Bahn boss Richard Lutz
Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) Berlin The Federal Chancellor earns less than many heads of state-owned companies and institutions. This emerges from a list from the Federal Ministry of Finance,…
He can – and Deutsche Bahn is working on it
ICE 3 neo The new ICE 3 neo express train is a prestige project for Deutsche Bahn and an important building block in the federal government’s plan to double the…
Electricity costs wipe out profits in 2023
Richard Lutz The CEO of Deutsche Bahn currently has to sign electricity contracts for 2023 – at significantly higher costs. (Photo: dpa) Brussels The forthcoming price increase at Deutsche Bahn…
Traffic light coalition disagrees about better compensation for train delays
Standstill at Stuttgart main station The numerous construction sites are the main problem of the railway, as the group admits. As a result, traffic will be slowed down while demand…
Three reasons why Deutsche Bahn is so unpunctual
Dusseldorf The ICE 952 to Cologne is delayed by 40 minutes, the ICE 714 to Hamburg-Altona by 50 minutes and the ICE 951 to Berlin is even canceled completely. Almost…
14 complete closures for six months
Berlin Deutsche Bahn AG wants to completely overhaul its rail network and test its new concept on the heavily used route between Mannheim and Frankfurt. The decision to use the…
Economy is looking for a connection to the railways
Berlin Companies increasingly want to reconnect their production sites to the rail network. This emerges from a response from the federal government to a question from the rail policy spokesman…
More complaints about Deutsche Bahn train delays
That was about 50 percent more than in the same period last year (1,653 applications), the facility said at the request of the Handelsblatt. Most complaints concern train delays and…
The federal and state governments are arguing about local transport discounts
Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) wants to fundamentally modernize local public transport after the experience with the nine-euro ticket. “People voted on buying the ticket that it shouldn’t…
Two billion euros more for electricity
Bahn boss Richard Lutz New challenges are coming to the top railroader: Energy prices are rising so much that the state-owned company will probably have to pay twice as much…
Never again war – the forgotten saying of Mikhail Gorbachev
the man who abolished the KGB agent Vladimir Putin, but enabled him again as agent leader ten years later, is dead: Mikhail Gorbachev. In the 1980s in the Soviet Union,…
Two billion euros more for electricity
Bahn boss Richard Lutz New challenges are coming to the top railroader: Energy prices are rising so much that the state-owned company will probably have to pay twice as much…