The 53-year-old engineer, currently heads the product line Rolls-Royce and BMW-class group starting in July, Board member for development of the. Weber have "a decisive share of the success of our highly successful major series, BMW 7er, 8er, X5, and X7," said Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Norbert Reithofer. At the same time, he paid tribute to Cheerful, "the highest recognition for his many years of successful work not only in the Board of management of BMW AG ". He had set in the field of electric mobility, and the digital networking of important impulses.

Frank Weber is also regarded as the succession candidate by Harald Krüger

Merry is in June, 60 years old, and reached the unwritten age limit for the BMW Board members. He is since December 2014, member of the management Board and chief last August was the appointment of Oliver Zipse to the group also as a candidate for the succession of its predecessor, Harald Krüger.

After the change from the production Department to the top management of the group Zipse had occupied in the Executive Board the Item for production and personnel. Ilka Horst Meier has been appointed the new chief of staff, Milan Nedeljkovic to the new production Board. Both are Zipse and Weber's own plants. In the case of BMW, a replacement has Vacancies with people from the own home Tradition.

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hyo/dpa Date Of Update: 12 March 2020, 12:00