The crisis has escalated.
Traffic Director Andreas Kowol (Die Grünen), who is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Eswe Verkehr, has submitted a proposal to the magistrate, according to which co-managing director Jörg Gerhard should be dismissed because of the allegations against him and because of the ongoing internal and public prosecutor's investigations, properly terminated and immediately released .
Oliver Bock
Correspondent for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung for the Rheingau-Taunus district and for Wiesbaden.
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After the meeting, the magistrate expressed shock and horror at Eswe's situation and spoke of "serious misconduct".
The supervisory board is now expected to dismiss managing director Gerhard.
He and his former co-managing director Hermann Zemlin are accused of unlawfully favoring works councils.
This involves allowances, bonuses and classification in unjustified salary brackets.
In addition, a former employee of the CDU town hall faction without sufficient qualifications is said to have been "accommodated" at Eswe.
Within a year he is said to have experienced a fairytale rise from project employee to non-tariff office manager with a monthly salary of 9,100 euros.
In this function he is said to have hired two other former CDU employees with good salaries.
Gerhard and the office manager are said to have obstructed the clarification of the actual facts.
There is even talk of data manipulation and the backdating of important documents.
Finally, the management is accused of eliminating “minus hours” of drivers through work not done during the pandemic worth 540,000 euros.
The management contract concluded in 2014 for the 55-year-old Gerhard was only extended by five years at the end of 2020 with effect from the beginning of 2022.