DE: Schädler new Head of Corporate Communications at Lufthansa Group

The Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG has appointed Barbara Schädler as Head of Corporate Communications of the Lufthansa Group. She will take over on 1 July 2013 from Jürgen Homeyer, who has been in charge of corporate communications on an interim basis since December 2012.

Barbara Schädler, who holds an economics degree, was spokeswoman at the Federal Finance Ministry from 1994 to 1998. She subsequently assumed responsibility for corporate communications at RWE Energie AG prior to moving in 2000 to Fujitsu Siemens Computers, where she was latterly responsible for all marketing and communications functions as Chief Marketing Officer and a member of the Executive Council. Since 2011, Barbara Schädler has been employed at SAP AG as Senior Vice President Global Communications. As Head of Corporate Communications at the Lufthansa Group, Barbara Schädler will report direct to the Chairman Dr. Christoph Franz.

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, commonly known as just Lufthansa and sometimes internationally as Lufthansa German Airline,) is the flag carrier of Germany and the largest airline in Europe, both in terms of overall passengers carried and fleet size. The German government had a 35.68% stake in Lufthansa until 1997, but the company is now owned by private investors (88.52%), MGL Gesellschaft für Luftverkehrswerte (10.05%), Deutsche Postbank (1.03%), and Deutsche Bank (0.4%) and has 119,084 employees (as of 2011). The name of the company is derived from Luft (the German word for "air"), and Hansa (after the Hanseatic League).

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