Andreas Meyer (business manager)

From 1996 to 1997, he worked as managing director at the German plant construction company, Deutsche Babcock in Oberhausen and Bitterfeld.

[1] On 23 June 2006, Meyer, with effect from 1 January 2007, was unanimously elected by SBB's Board of Directors, from 30 candidates, to succeed Benedikt Weibel.

With a total of around CHF 1.1 million as income, Meyer is therefore the highest-paid employee in a company owned by the Swiss Confederation.

Within SBB's 2007 annual report, it was shown that Meyer had received an additional bonus on top of his bonus and an extraordinary contribution to the pension fund: SBB Immobilien acquired Meyers German residence and organized its sale to facilitate his change of location.

[14][15] In addition to the media and public debates surrounding this decision, a parliamentary inquiry was initiated by the member of National Council Josef Zisyadis.

It made headlines again in March 2021, when SBB's annual account showed Meyer's final 2020 salary as almost 715,000 francs, which was equivalent to his remuneration for the previous year despite him leaving office after just three months but taking into consideration his one-year notice period until end of September 2020.

He accompanied his father as a boy to the Rhine port, where he checked wagon loads and carried out brake tests.