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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - One of them moves to the top of the supervisory body at Daimler, another has to get the most important German group back on track in terms of market value.
And a third is something new at the traditional Bosch company.
An overview of important personalities from the south-west economy, who should make a name for themselves in 2021:
BERND PISCHETSRIEDER: No question about it, it's not a generation change - it's more a commitment to continuity and experience in times that are not easy.
When Bernd Pischetsrieder takes over the chairmanship of the Daimler Supervisory Board after the Annual General Meeting on March 31, he will be 73 years old, as the successor to the then almost 79-year-old Manfred Bischoff.
For formal reasons alone, Pischetsrieder cannot be more than a man of transition in the influential post.
The mechanical engineer with a doctorate knows the industry like no other and has seen a lot of crises.
He was CEO at BMW, then at Volkswagen, and has been a member of the Daimler Supervisory Board since 2014. The fact that there is already speculation about his own successor should leave him cold.
Hot candidate for it, by the way: Telekom CEO Tim Höttges.
FILIZ ALBRECHT: The technology group Bosch is now 134 years old, but there has never been one thing there: a woman in the top management floor.
That changes at the beginning of the new year, when the manager Filiz Albrecht officially becomes a member of the management of the Gerlinger Group.
The 49-year-old, who has been with Bosch for three years, will in future serve as Labor Director at the major automotive supplier business with 400,000 employees.
Before moving to Bosch, the business law graduate worked for, among others, the Ludwigsburg automotive supplier Mann + Hummel.
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CHRISTIAN KLEIN: At the age of 40, the CEO of the software company SAP is facing his most difficult task.
After Germany's most important company in terms of stock market value surprisingly again cashed in its financial targets for 2020 and a profitability promise that had been made in the previous year, SAP crashed on the stock exchange - and is still far from previous highs today.
Dozens of billions of euros in market capitalization vanished into thin air, and many SAP customers continue to criticize the poor interlinking of the numerous SAP applications.
In short: It was better for the flagship company from Walldorf.
The question will be: Can the youngest boss of all Dax companies get the company back on track?
WILFRIED PORTH / ROMAN ZITZELSBERGER: Wilfried Porth is not new at the negotiating table - just his place in the middle.
Since the end of November, the 61-year-old has been leading the powerful employers' association Südwestmetall and thus also the collective bargaining for the metal and electrical industry, which should pick up speed after the turn of the year.
In the midst of the corona crisis and the turmoil of transformation, they see the fact that a manager of a large corporation speaks for the strongly medium-sized industry in the midst of the corona crisis and transformation turmoil more as an advantage than a disadvantage.
Porth sees himself as a tough but predictable negotiator who is willing to compromise.
"With me you know where you stand."
His counterpart Roman Zitzelsberger, district manager of IG Metall in Baden-Württemberg since 2013, already knows this.
Not only because Porth has been negotiating for years as a representative of the industry heavyweight Daimler.
Zitzelsberger also sits on the Supervisory Board for the employee side at Daimler.
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RAINER DULGER / STEFAN WOLF: From the voices of business in the south-west to the voices of business in the south-west: With Rainer Dulger, another citizen of Baden-Württemberg has been at the head of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) since November.
The entrepreneur from Heidelberg was previously Gesamtmetall President for a long time and is considered a man of clear words.
He explicitly praised the government's corona policy, but at the same time made it clear that the focus must now be on the time after the crisis.
The newcomer to Gesamtmetall is also an old acquaintance: Stefan Wolf, once Dulger's successor at the regional association Südwestmetall, will set the tone for the entire German metal industry in the future.
Instead of sitting at the negotiating table with IG Metall as before, the CEO of the automotive supplier ElringKlinger will in future be more of a coordinator.
There is no central negotiation;
Should the Southwest negotiate the pilot degree again, Wolf would be back in a new role for the decisive final lap.