Notable Facts
→President of IG Metall (Germany's largest industrial union) from 2015-2023
→President of IndustriALL Global Union representing 50 million workers worldwide
→Supervisory board member at Volkswagen AG and Robert Bosch GmbH
→Led historic 2018 collective bargaining agreements enabling reduced working hours
→Economics graduate from Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Paris and Bremen universities
→SPD member and co-chairman of federal Work 4.0 dialogue platform