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Berlin, Dusseldorf The head of the works council of the industrial group Thyssen-Krupp, Dirk Sievers, is giving up his post after five years in office. On July 1, he will take on new tasks in the company, Sievers explained in a letter to the workforce published on Tuesday.
He is succeeded by Tekin Nasikkol, head of the works council for the steel division. Nasikkol was established at a meeting of the Group works council elected on Tuesday afternoon, as the company confirmed to the Handelsblatt.
According to company circles, Sievers will become labor director of the Rasselstein subsidiary. As a manufacturer of tinplate, the division is one of Thyssen-Krupp’s most profitable business units. The company declined to comment.
The previous chairman of the Thyssen-Krupp works council is moving to management.
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Born in 1971, Sievers has worked for the industrial group and its predecessors for more than 35 years. In 2018 he was elected head of the employee representative body. The job gave him a lot of pleasure, but the past few years have been shaped primarily by crises and difficult decisions, Sievers wrote.
These were not easy for him. “As Chairman of the Group Works Council and member of the Supervisory Board, I also had to make important decisions such as company sales, downsizing and even plant closures,” explained Sievers.
The change comes in the middle of a major restructuring of the industrial company. The focus of the transformation that has been planned for years is the sale of the armaments division Thyssen-Krupp Marine Systems, the partial IPO of the hydrogen subsidiary Nucera, which was launched on Monday, and the future of the steel business.
There is also upheaval at the top of the group. Miguel Ángel López Borrego took office earlier this month. He is the fourth CEO in five years.
“We managed to implement and comply with the negotiated rules of the game for the restructuring of the group,” Sievers said in the letter. He is not aware of a single case of termination for operational reasons in the course of the agreed restructuring.
It is not unusual for members of the works council and the IG Metall trade union to switch to management at Thyssen-Krupp. In previous years, among others, Chief Human Resources Officer Oliver Burkhard and Markus Grolms, who is responsible for personnel in the steel division, moved to the Group’s Executive Board.
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