The Federal Transport Minister took the Autobahn company by surprise with his personnel decisions.
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Berlin The news hit the approximately 11,000 employees of the motorway company shortly before closing time like the proverbial bomb: Managing Director Stefan Krenz will leave the federal company in the summer, as Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) announced at the beginning of April.
From July, two people would take on the mammoth task of the engineer and infrastructure expert Krenz: Wissing’s party friend Stefan Birkner, who announced his retirement from politics after the election defeat in Lower Saxony and hired the auditors of EY.
There is also the civil servant and proven road construction project manager Dirk Brandenburger. Up to now, he has been the managing director of a federal and state project company, Deges (German Unity Fernstrassenplanungs- und -bau GmbH).
Since 2021, Autobahn GmbH has officially managed more than 13,000 kilometers of motorways and some federal roads. What used to be done by 16 federal states for the federal government is now done by a central office with eleven branch offices. It jerked violently at the beginning, and even today the processes are anything but smooth.
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