Brigitte Ederer should new chairman of the supervisory board of the ÖBB-Holding will, reports the Crown newspaper.
Andrea Reithmayer The paper writes that she is retiring early as chairwoman of the ÖBB supervisory board and will move to a management position on the second or third level in the ÖBB infrastructure.
Reithmayer should have continued in her role until the middle of next year. An extraordinary meeting will be called this afternoon in which the Supervisory Board will reorganize itself.
Brigitte Ederer returns to ÖBB
Ederer has already held this position once: in September 2014, the now 68-year-old was elected chairwoman of the ÖBB supervisory board. It was in February 2014 by the then infrastructure minister Doris Bures was appointed to the supervisory board of the ÖBB-Holding, which she then took over as chairman a few months later. After the SPÖ was kicked out of the government and the Freedom Party made a pact with the Turquoises, the FPÖ changed the color of the ÖBB supervisory board. Only a few weeks into office, the new infrastructure minister parted ways Norbert Hofer by Ederer. “I did a good job,” she said at the time, annoyed about the early transfer. In March 2018, the former Siemens manager became the FPÖ manager Arnold Slate – currently elected to the Blues’ negotiating team – replaced.
In 2020, the turquoise-green government had just been forged, brought in Transport Minister Leonore Gewessler Ederer returned to the ÖBB supervisory board as a simple member.
In addition to ÖBB Holding AG and ÖBBpersonalverkehr AG, Ederer is a supervisory board member at ams OSRAM AG, Boehringer Ingelheim, Marinomed Biotech AG, Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment, TTTech Computertechnik AG and WEB Windenergie AG as well as spokesperson for the Forum Supply Security Association for the Austrian energy and water supply.