First Women on the Deutsche Post Management Board

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The supervisory board of the Deutsche Post AG appointed on Wednesday for the first time a woman to their management board. The organization was already one of the leaders concerning the topic of international diversity as four of the seven board members do not even have a German passport. But diversity is not only about internationality. Also the gender mix is an important success factor, which has to be taken into consideration. The top management is often still just men’s business. Although, already 37 percent of the Post employees worldwide are women, no woman has ever managed to get into the board before – until now.

Angela Titzrath will replace the current board member in charge of personnel, Walter Scheuerle, next year. Scheuerle retires after twelve years on his own desire. Titzrath (45 years old) is currently a member of EvoBus GmbH board, a subsidiary of Daimler AG. For the last 20 years she has been in various management positions within the Daimler Group. The exact date of the change is not fixed yet.

“The critical success factors in logistics are the people – therefore, our human resource department has a special significance for the company’s further success,” said the CEO of Deutsche Post, Frank Appel. “Due to this background, we are very pleased that we could win Angela Titzrath for our human resource department and our board. Thanks to her extensive experience she has all the prerequisites for us to decisively support us on our way to become worldwide an employer of choice.”