The departure of a senior HR executive at the truck and bus divisions of Volkswagen and MAN will see a reshuffled senior leadership team come July 1.
Leaving the group for personal reasons is Josef Schechshorn, the chief human resources officer at MAN SE and MAN Truck & Bus.
Schechshorn is also the Volkswagen Truck & Bus group head of human resources.
The MAN Truck & Bus executive board member responsible for research and development as well as production and logistics, Dr Carsten Intra is succeeding Schechshorn in all three positions.
Intra’s board of director duties will go to Dr Frederik Zohm (research and development) and Dr Ulrich Dilling (production and logistics).
Volkswagen Truck & Bus chief executive officer Andreas Renschler says the company is sad to see Schelchshorn leaving.
“He has made a splendid contribution toward the start-up of Volkswagen Truck & Bus and set the course for the future at MAN. I would like to thank him – also on behalf of the rest of management – for his valuable assistance and wish him all the best for the future,” says Renschler.
The contract for Joachim Drees as MAN SE and MAN Truck & Bus chief executive officer was set to run for three years but was extended by the board for another five years as of April 1, 2018.
Drees held managerial positions at Daimler Trucks and Mercedes-Benz Trucks from 1996 onward before switching in 2006 to British investment company HgCapital LLP as Partner for Portfolio Management. From 2012 onward, he was Chief Financial Officer of Drees & Sommer. He joined MAN in 2015.
Intra joined the former MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG in 2001 as a production engineer. Two years later, he became head of the cab production at the Munich site. He became central site network planning head in 2004.
From 2006 onward, Intra led the heavy-duty trucks business unit. Following further management positions in Turkey and Brazil, Intra took over executive board responsibility for production and logistics at MAN Truck & Bus AG in 2012. Since November 2015, he has additionally held the role for research and development.
Dr Frederik Zohm was most recently responsible at Volkswagen Truck & Bus for the management of the strategic alliance with US-based truckmaker Navistar. Before this, he was with Daimler AG in different executive positions at Evo-Bus, the Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Cooperation, and lastly Daimler Trucks Powertrain.
Dr Ulrich Dilling headed the MAN engine plant in Nuremberg and managed various international powertrain projects in this position.
In 2017, he took over the commercial vehicle manufacturer’s component production across all sites.
The graduate engineer joined in 2009 coming from transmission system manufacturer Getrag where he also gained 11 years of international experience in its subsidiaries in the USA and Sweden as Plant Manager and Director following his time in Germany.
