Dr. Gerrit Krupp takes over at Häfen and Güterverkehr Köln AG!

Dr. Gerrit Krupp takes over at Häfen and Güterverkehr Köln AG!

Nippes, Deutschland - The supervisory board of Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG (HGK) has a new chairman: Dr. Gerrit Krupp was elected to this office on June 11, 2025. The 47-year-old SPD politician has already made a name for himself in Cologne politics, especially as a member of the city council since 2014, where he is active for the districts of Merheim, Ostheim and parts of Neubrück and Höhenberg. His special fields in the city council are order and right, and he also has the management of the Finance Committee. His election follows the resignation of Susana Dos Santos Herrmann, who surprisingly resigned as the chairman of the supervisory board, after a personnel decision was made for the successor to the previous CEO Uwe Wedig, Rheinische-Versbblaetter.de .

Susana dos Santos Herrmann, who was only elected chairman of the supervisory board at the end of 2020, withdrew because she did not agree with the decision for Steffen Bauer as the successor to Uwe Wedig. Wedig has headed HGK since 2018 and its contract ends on September 30, 2025. Herrmann stated that she could not feel responsible for the wrong decision and therefore resigned. A four -member finding commission had spoken in 3 to 1 for farmer, which led to an overwhelming majority for his proposal at the Supervisory Board meeting. Ironically, Herrmann voted for an alternative candidate, as from the report of the Rundschau-online.de

new leadership duo

dr. Gerrit Krupp is supported by Dirk Michel, who acts as the deputy chairman of the supervisory board. Michel has made a name for himself as a real estate expert and thus brings valuable expertise into committee work. Together, the new management team controls the HGK fortunes, which has established itself as the largest inland navigation company in Europe and has around 35 million tons of goods annually. Around 2500 employees are employed here, and the association runs the largest internal port association in Germany and one of the largest private freight traffic railways, such as the describes.