?We are delighted to welcome Barbara Sch?dler on board at the Lufthansa Group. With her in-depth experience as chief of communications and marketing at blue chip companies, she is a perfect choice and just the type of person we wanted to take charge of our corporate communications,? said Lufthansa CEO and Chairman Dr. Christoph Franz. The Chairman expressed his thanks to J?rgen Homeyer for his commitment and dedication at the post: ?Mr. Homeyer has done a magnificent job and achieved a great deal during his brief tenure for Lufthansa. We wish him and his consulting business every success in the future.?
Barbara Sch?dler, who holds an economics degree, was spokeswoman at the Federal Finance Ministry from 1994 to 1998. She subsequently assumed responsibility for corporate communications at RWE Energie AG prior to moving in 2000 to Fujitsu Siemens Computers, where she was latterly responsible for all marketing and communications functions as Chief Marketing Officer and a member of the Executive Council. Since 2011, Barbara Sch?dler has been employed at SAP AG as Senior Vice President Global Communications.
As Head of Corporate Communications at the Lufthansa Group, Barbara Sch?dler will report direct to the Chairman Dr. Christoph Franz.