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VSPV exits TMV: An association is charting its own course.
Sascha Waltemate, head of the VSPV office and known in the industry for years as a knowledgeable association manager, accompanies the move inward as well as outward. The VSPV represents, among other things, taxi and hire-car operators in North Rhine-Westphalia and acts as a contact for service providers in private road passenger transport. Waltemate serves there as the managing director of the office and acts as one of the central voices of the association.
According to the VSPV, in the future they want to “take federal political tasks back into their own hands.” The association, which until now had been organized as a member in the TMV, justifies the withdrawal with the desire for stronger autonomous influence, especially at a time when important decisions shaping the passenger transport law are pending. Membership in the TMV was, according to information from the Bundestag’s lobby register, last officially recorded; Waltemate is also listed there as a lobbyist.
New Strategic Direction
The core of the new strategic direction is an enhanced presence in federal politics. For this purpose the association – shortly after leaving the TMV – has engaged the former TMV managing director Patrick Meinhardt as General Authorized Representative and head of a newly established capital office in Berlin. Meinhardt, who left the TMV at the end of 2025, is expected, according to the association, to help secure “visibility, short lines of communication and assertiveness” in political talks.
Waltemate commented on this step as a necessary preparation for upcoming industry-specific legislative processes. In his association environment, the timing is seen as right to professionalize networks and directly cultivate political contacts – an approach that is linked to the establishment of a capital office in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Great loss for the TMV
The TMV, for its part, continues to see itself as a nationwide advocate for the interests of small and medium-sized taxi and rental-car operators. It emphasizes its role as a strong community that remains active, particularly in cultivating political contacts and on the issue of fair competition with platform providers. For the association, the departure of the VSPV means, not least, a personnel and symbolic setback: a member with regional anchoring and its own positioning leaves the joint association.
The decision of the VSPV is viewed differently in the industry. While some market participants see the new independence as an opportunity, others warn of a possible weakening of the joint association's work at the federal level. For the taxi and rental-car business overall, the exit of a state association signals a phase of readjustment, in which advocacy and political influence must be recalibrated.
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