Taxi München eG reorganizes leadership – Kroker re-elected, supervisory board newly constituted.

About 200 members of Taxi München eG gathered for the regular general meeting, which stretched from the morning hours into the evening. In total, eleven written votes were on the agenda, including the re-elections of two of the three board positions and five seats on the supervisory board.

Kroker re-elected, Ghulam rejected

In the board election, the members confirmed Thomas Kroker in his office with just under two-thirds of the votes. The entrepreneur Elias Ghulam, who had been proposed as a successor for the recently stepped-down Patrick Nothhaft, did not receive a majority. Until the by-election of a third board member, the cooperative will be led by Thomas Kroker and Ertekin Kocer.

Conflicts in the Background

The election decisions were made against the backdrop of ongoing tensions between the executive board and the supervisory board. Already in spring there had been clashes after directors Kroker and Nothhaft accused several supervisory board members – including Ghulam – of acting against the cooperative's interests through collaborations with the ride-hailing platform Uber. The conflict had led to the resignations of several supervisory board members.

New Supervisory Board Constituted

Five of the nine supervisory board seats were to be filled in Munich. The following were elected: Ingrid Mellert, Werner Hillermann, Aldo Conteddu, Andreas Mekidiche and Konstantin Kokoviadis. In office remain Ünal Kücüksahin, Elias Ghulam, Hüseyin Bayram and Efkan Tascioglu. The previous chairman Sezai Curuk did not stand for re-election. In the subsequent constituting meeting the supervisory board elected Ingrid Mellert as the new chair.

No Discharge for the Board and the Supervisory Board

Neither the board nor the supervisory board received discharge from the members. The reason was objections by the Cooperative Association, which, in its audit report, had pointed to unclear figures in the annual financial statements. As a result, an extraordinary general meeting is to be convened in the coming months to approve the revised annual financial statements and elect a third board member.