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MATTHIAS WARNIG

German businessmen in Russia – more than Gerhard Schröder

From Stasi to the top of Russia

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989,

Matthias Warnig had worked in the DDR’s infamous Stasi security service.

In 1990, he got a job working for the Dresdner Bank and soon became the first person to obtain a license to open a foreign bank in Saint Petersburg.

There, he established contact with Vladimir Putin,

who was starting out his political career.

According to the official version of events, Warnig and Putin first met in Saint Petersburg.

However, according to media reports citing Warnig’s former colleagues,

the two were already acquainted in Dresden,

where Putin worked for the Russian secret service, the KGB.

Between 2003 and 2015, he was a member of the supervisory committee of Rossiya bank, which is controlled by pro-regime businessmen Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov.

The former Stasi agent also served as the CEO of Nord Stream AG, and is now the executive director of Nord Stream 2.

Additionally, he is a member of an advisory board of the VTB bank,

and the board of directors in both Rosneft and pipeline-producing Transneft.

He also holds one of top jobs in the Russian aluminum giant, Rusal.

In 2012, he received a medal from Vladimir Putin for „special merit in the development of bilateral relations” with Russia.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-businessmen-in-russia-more-than-gerhard-schr%C3%B6der/a-40761086

HARMUT MEHDORN

Russia’s state railway company also has a German in their board of directors.

Harmut Mehdorn, a close fried to former chancellor Schröder and a former chief of Germany’s Deutsche Bahn, joined the board in 2011,

after leaving his post in the German company over a scandal which involved spying on employees.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-businessmen-in-russia-more-than-gerhard-schr%C3%B6der/a-40761086

RON SOMMER

Another top German manager, Ron Sommer, has been heading the board of directors of Russia’s mobile provider MTS since 2009.

Earlier, Sommer served as the head of the German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom between 1995 and 2002.

MTS’ biggest shareholder is the conglomerate Sistema, which is owned by one the richest people in Russia, Vladimir Evtushenkov.

The German also joined the board of directors of Sistema last year.

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