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Bernd Pischetsrieder elected Daimler chairman | Automotive Industry News

Bernd Pischetsrieder has changed Manfred Bischoff as chairman of the Daimler supervisory board.

Bischoff stepped down at his own request just after 14 years as chairman.

The board proposed Pischetsrieder as Bischoff’s successor in December 2020. He has a very long historical past in the vehicle market, 1st with BMW, wherever he steered the ill-fated 1994 obtain of Rover Team which led to his departure in 1999 and then different posts in the Volkswagen Team and Scania. He joined the Daimler supervisory board in 2014.

Bischoff has been named honorary chairman of the supervisory board.

Shareholders also elected Elizabeth Centoni, chief technique officer and standard supervisor of programs at Cisco Devices, Ben van Beurden, CEO Royal Dutch Shell , and Martin Brudermüller, chairman of BASF, to the supervisory board by a large the greater part. They changed Petraea Heynicke, and Juergen Hambrecht and Bischoff.