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Article: Senior DB managers dismissed. (World Report).
- Article from:
- International Railway Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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GERMAN Rail (DB) has been forced to rethink its controversial fares structure, which it introduced at the end of last year, following a 13.5% reduction in turnover and a 7.1% fall in long-distance passenger traffic for the first quarter of this year. In addition, DB's supervisory board has dismissed Dr Christoph Franz, who was head of the passenger division, and his marketing manager, Mr Hans-Gustav Koch. This has resulted in a number of senior management changes at DB and a reduction in the size of DB's board of management.
Franz is being replaced by Dr Kari-Friedrich Rausch, DB's technical director. Rausch is succeeded by Mr Stefan Garber, who unlike Rausch ...