At times it seems as if Deutsche Bahn is rolling its numbers.
Just one example: the board around CEO
Richard Lutz
(59) estimated around 35 billion euros for the renovation of the rail network at the end of 2022.
Just a few months later, at the beginning of 2023, it reported additional requirements – over 45 billion euros.
Such absurdities now seem to be standard in the management of the state-owned company.
Regardless of whether it is profit, punctuality, costs or project plans - the promises made by the company's management to politicians are usually rosy at the beginning, only to then almost always be refuted by reality.
A special testimony to this mismanagement is the internal “medium-term planning 2024 - 2028”, which is available to manager magazin.
On almost 300 pages, the group lays out scenarios that seem completely unrealistic.
How absurd are the numbers really?
Why does Transport Minister
Volker Wissing
(FDP, 53) regularly have the railway board demonstrate this?
Why is it that Lutz, a trained controller, doesn't have his numbers under control?
And what does this mean for the future performance of the railway, which is set to become a key player in the decarbonization of the German economy?
Michael Machatschke, a long-time journalist observer for Deutsche Bahn and reporter for manager magazin, provides information about this in an interview with editor-in-chief Sven Clausen.
In the “Das Thema” podcast, editor-in-chief Sven Clausen provides information every week about the editorial team’s exclusive findings on a topic that is crucial for the German economy. You can subscribe to the podcast via manager magazin as well as on Spotify, Apple, Deezer and Google.
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