(Berlin, September 29, 2010)
Deutsche Bahn is reorganizing its Passenger Transport division following the takeover of Arriva. As of January 1, 2011 local rail and road passenger transport activities will be merged together. The previous business units, DB Regio AG (regional transport) and DB Stadtverkehr GmbH (urban transport), will then form the new DB Regio AG business unit.
In the future DB’s rail and bus business activities outside of Germany will be bundled together under the management of Arriva. Domestic and cross-border long-distance rail transport activities remain unchanged under the management of DB Fernverkehr AG. DB Vertrieb GmbH will also remain as the fourth segment within the Passenger Transport division.
DB Regio AG will create a new Production and Marketing Management Board division for the newly added bus business. The new division will be headed by Micheal Hahn as of January 1, 2011. Mr. Hahn is currently the Chairman of the Regional Board of DB Regio southeast in Leipzig.
The CEO of DB Stadtverkehr GmbH, Hermann Graf von der Schulenburg, announced that he has decided to leave the company at the end of the current year. Wilfried Geitz, the Managing Director of Human Resources at DB Stadtverkehr, will retire at the end of 2010.
“After 16 years in various senior executive positions, Graf von der Schulenburg will pursue new goals outside the Group. We wish him all the best for the future along with our deep gratitude for his extraordinarily successfully work as head of DB’s bus business,” said Ulrich Homburg, Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bahn, responsible for Passenger Transport. “I would also like to warmly thank Wilfried Geitz for his 40 years of dedicated service. We also extend our best wishes to him as he enters a new phase of his life.”