Ex-federal economy minister Werner Muller's appointment as chairman of RAG from June 2003, to replace Karl Starzacher, is widely interpreted as a red letter event for Deutsche Steinkohle, the group's German coal producer. Thanks in part to pressure from the trade union representation on the RAG supervisory board, Muller got the job rather than Utz-Hellmuth Felcht, boss of RAG's most Important subsidiary chemical company Degussa. There were fears that, had Felcht taken the helm, RAG's mining sector would have been neglected in favour of chemicals.
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