Status: 11/01/2022 2:55 p.m
Titus Rebhann, who worked for Foreign Minister Baerbock for many years, became the chief lobbyist at RWE. The former office manager of the Green politician will become head of the energy group’s capital city representative office on March 1, 2023.
A longtime employee of Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Titus Rebhann, is moving to the energy group RWE as chief lobbyist. The former office manager of the Greens politician will become head of the company’s capital representative office in Berlin on March 1, 2023, as an RWE spokesman confirmed. The “world” had previously reported.
Until the change of government at the end of last year, Rebhann was head of Baerbock’s Bundestag office. He then moved with her to the Foreign Office.
The ministry pointed out that Rebhann had been released since mid-October and “had no professional contacts with RWE and was not involved in any projects directly related to RWE”. RWE advertised the position last summer. According to “Welt”, Rebhann had applied for it. He should therefore contribute to the “transformation” of the company.
Not uncommon, but controversial
Although RWE relies heavily on renewable energies, in the Rhenish mining area in North Rhine-Westphalia it will also rely on lignite by 2030. In the state government there, Environment Minister Oliver Krischer (Greens) is another former boss of Rebhann: the future RWE lobbyist headed Krischer’s office for eight years during his time in the Bundestag. In 2018 he switched to Baerbock.
Transitions from politics to business are more common, but controversial. For example, former federal government spokesman Thomas Steg became chief lobbyist at Volkswagen in 2012. In 2013, the Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery, Eckart von Klaeden, also joined Daimler as a lobbyist.