« Raiffeisen has never used revolution » – Diepresse.com
The head of the Raiffeisen Landesbank Upper Austria has conducted the participation portfolio for 13 years. He wants to cooperate more with other state banks and bring himself more. What connects him with other Raiffeisen bankers and how his relationship with Hannes Androsch was.
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The new general director of the Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich, Reinhard Schwendtbauer, wants to cooperate more with other state banks and also accept a new mandate. Hermann Wakolbinger
The press: What will you create differently than your predecessor Heinrich Schaller as the new general director of the RLB Upper Austria?
Reinhard Schwendtbauer: We will fundamentally continue the course. Raiffeisen has never used revolution, but definitely evolution. We will strengthen certain things that have been done in the past. With Ludwig Scharinger we had a long-term general director who was very present and offensive to the outside world and wrote an extreme success story for Raiffeisen Upper Austria. Heinz Schaller was a completely different type who was just as successful with a quiet hand. He brought the total assets from 30 to 50 billion euros. Everyone goes their own way, has to do it too. What I would like to strengthen is the collaboration in the Raiffeisen sector with the other Landesbanken and the Raiffeisen banks in Upper Austria. I also locate the willingness to do so.
Why is the cooperation between the state banks so important? Everyone has their own territory.
In order for it to stay that way, cooperation is particularly important. It is about costs for IT, personnel or regulatory matters and the processing in the background. We have to bundle this so that we can maintain independence in the federal states.
So will the relationship between the state banks improve with them?
The goal is to strengthen it even more. It’s not bad at the moment. But you can safely expand the cooperation.
Nevertheless, they also invest in other federal states.
We do. We are the largest Landesbank with a total of 50 billion euros. In the commercial area we are represented all over Austria and southern Germany. We also have investments across Austria. Of course not in the retail area.
So has there been Zank between the Landesbanken?
