Jenbach - At the beginning of October 2013 the former executive committee member of the Achenseebahn, Bernhard Marchi, to his surprise was dismissed without notice.
 
Marchi had been with the company since 1989 and his sudden dismissal has not only hit the shareholders of the Achenseebahn hard.
 
Marchi, who had been in a non-terminable employment relationship with Achenseebahn AG since January 2001, fell into disagreement with the chairman of the supervisory board, Christian Kittl, for which reason Kittl convened a meeting in Wiesing to quickly dismiss Marchi.
 
The supervisory board then decided unanimously to dismiss Marchi.
 
Marchi Goes to Court
 
The former board of directors will of course not accept his dismissal and has filed a lawsuit against the then members of the Supervisory Board at Court in Innsbruck, however there is still no negotiating date.
 
A factual presentation, which has been signed by 72 shareholders of the railway, is now at the public prosecutor's office in Innsbruck.
 
In a letter to the district council it is explicitly pointed out that, according to Marchi, it is impossible to dismiss him without disciplinary proceedings.
 
According to the letter, there were serious disagreements between Marchi and Kittl at the Annual General Meeting in June 2013.
 
Fuchshuber a Controversial Issue
 
The employment of company director Georg Fuchshuber was part of that dispute.
 
Fuchshuber is now on the new Board of Management of Achenseebahn AG and Kittl is still Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
 
Bernhard Marchi said, "Kittl has been on the board since 2010, and then suddenly everything I did was wrong in 2013, Kittl must have been sleeping for three years. They took my life's work on the Achenseebahn from me. I now want a final decision from a judge so that this thing has an end."
 
After a letter from the 72 shareholders in Jenbach and the surrounding area made the rounds Christian Kittl was compelled to act.
 
So on his part he wrote a letter which contains many explosive allegations.
 
Hard Cheese
 
Kittl accused the dismissed board of directors of having caused a loss of no less than €1.5 million by mismanagement and as the supervisory board they had to pull the emergency-cord in order to avert greater damage.
 
Kittl's allegations against the former executive committee are massive, and also concern increases in salaries and personnel decisions.
 
Amongst other things, it is also about the professional promotion of Bernhard Marchi's son.
 
Christian Kittl, chairman of the supervisory board, explained in his talk with the regional boards, "It is a whole list of misdemeanors that we accuse Mr. Marchi of, among other things, a disenfranchised service plan, as well as violations of labour law. The decisions of the Supervisory Board were unanimous, and even if Mr. Marchi is now before the courts, I see his case as hopeless."
 
Author unknown - Loosely translated with Google.