The supervisory board of Stuttgart airport has to look around for a new managing director, because company boss Arina Freitag will leave the company at the end of the year at her own request. Your contract would have run until the end of 2022.

The largest airport in the state of Baden-Württemberg announced on Monday that managing director Ariana Freitag, who has been in office since 2017, has asked the supervisory board to terminate her employment contract early. This would have run normally until September 2022. The mandate of co-managing director Walter Schoefer, who remains in office unchanged, is not affected.

“We very much regret that Dr. Arina Freitag will now devote herself to other tasks. The airport is thus losing a competent and very innovative managing director. She has given the company valuable impetus and has made a decisive contribution to the development of the last four years. In this way, she ensured that a new, transparent and sustainability-oriented remuneration system was developed. Dr. Friday prepares the ground. As a crisis manager, she made a decisive contribution to managing the company responsibly, even in financially difficult times, and to safeguarding jobs. To this end, she has set many sustainability impulses in her business area in line with the fairportSTR. This is important so that the airport can achieve its goal of becoming climate neutral, ”explains BW Transport Minister Winfried Hermann (Greens), who is also chairman of the supervisory board.