Dusseldorf - The 224-million-DM-flop of the savings bank chief Wolfgang Dornseifer in the 90s, the scandal over the millions of loans to Franjo Pooth, getting fired executives of Heinz-Martin Humme and Karl-Heinz Stiegemann, most recently the odd consultancy contract for the Cologne Mayor Jupp Müller - again Stadtsparkasse Dusseldorf comes with scandals in the headlines. And the Board often react until it was too late. The new savings bank is now demanding more expertise for the supervisory authority.
The Panel is made up of representatives of Ratsfraktion on the one hand and employee representatives on the other side. The politically certain members previously needed for this mandate any professional qualification. Thus, in addition to the financial experts such as economist studying Gudrun Hock and the Ex-Karstadt CEO Bernd Hebbering also members with an education that makes little economic know-how to expect.
(For future Board appointments, therefore, at least at local elections in the summer), the new provisions: The Act requires the Board members with a "proven expertise" and "professional ability to understand the economic and legal processes in the daily events of a savings bank. Unable to prove only one exception: The OB has this qualification essential.
"Access to the Governing Body is therefore more difficult, thereby increasing its expertise," says Member of Parliament of Christian Weisbrich (CDU) of the Act reflect the opinion decisively hat.Immer City Savings Bank has been rocked by scandals. The new savings bank wants to control verbessern.Der Landtagsabgeordnete Weisbrich Christian has worked with the law.
