Jörg Schlagbauer - Biography

Jörg Schlagbauer was born in Kösching/Eichstätt, Germany, in 1977.

He began his vocational training as an industrial clerk at AUDI AG in 1995 and then worked as a clerical assistant in the accounts receivable department from 1998. In addition to his professional posts, he studied at the Administration and Business Academy (VWA) in Munich from 1999 to 2003, graduating with a degree in business management.

Jörg Schlagbauer has been active in employee representation since 1997 – initially as a Member, later as Vice Chairman, and, from 1999, as Chairman of the Youth and Trainee Representation and the General Youth and Trainee Representation. In 2002, he became a Member of the Works Council at Audi in Ingolstadt. Since 2006, he has been a Member of the General Works Council, the Economic Committee, and the Supervisory Board, as well as the Executive Works Committee of the Works Council. He has been a Member (since 2010) and Vice Chairman (since 2017) of the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board. After serving as Vice Chairman of the Works Council for six years, he was elected Chairman of the Works Council at the Ingolstadt site and Chairman of the General Works Council of AUDI AG in 2023. In 2024, he also took over as Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of AUDI AG.

Schlagbauer has also worked for IG Metall Ingolstadt and Bayern since 1995. In addition to his role as a workers’ representative, he was a Member of the IG Metall committee of workers’ representatives at Audi from 1999 until 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he was Vice Chairman and from 2006 to 2024 he was Chairman.

Alongside his professional responsibilities, Schlagbauer has been Chairman of the Administrative Board of Audi BKK since 2010 and Chairman of the Administrative Board of the BKK Landesverband Bayern since 2011.Since 2014, he has also acted as a Member of the Ingolstadt City Council and a Member of the Administrative Board of Sparkasse Ingolstadt.

Social commitment is another of Schlagbauer’s core values. In addition to his voluntary roles in municipal and trade union governance, he has been a Member of the Board of Management of the Audi Selbsthilfeeinrichtungen (Self-help Organizations) since 2006.