Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH
THREE SENIOR executives have left Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (DASA's) military-aircraft division following board dissatisfaction with the operation's performance.
Division president Klaus-Jurgen Wolfert is to go, along with head of development Wolfgang Kuny and finance and contracts chief Reinhold Faltlhauser. The three are expected to leave in September.
DASA declines to confirm the changes, but company sources say that they are chiefly connected with unsatisfactory handling of DASA's part of the Eurofighter programme. Wolfert, who came to DASA's Ottobrunn site from the former MBB plant at Bremen, is believed to have been uncomfortable with the military-aircraft leadership, having made his name in marketing activities.
Wolfert has held his position for two years, having taken over from current Panavia managing director Oskar Friedrich.
The sources add that "a fresh look" is now also being given at merging the Panavia and Eurofighter companies, in the wake of the recent decision to merge the NEFMA and NAMMA programme management agencies.
Wolfert is to be succeeded by Aloysius Rauen, formerly Tornado programme manager at DASA, now running the DASA Airbus Einswarden component plant.
Source: Flight International
