Six years after the takeover of parts of the Opel Development Center by Segula, hundreds of employees have to look for a new job. At best, half of the approximately 500 jobs at Segula in Rüsselsheim and Rodgau-Dudenhofen should remain. Because the days of the largest partial company, Segula Technologies GmbH (STG) with around 330 employees, are counted: four weeks remain at least part of the test facilities that have been interested in negotiations with investors who have signaled interest. In this case, there was an opportunity that around 100 of the STG employees switch to the new owner. In the other Segula societies, 150 employees recently worked at the two Hessian locations. The managing director of Segula Germany, Holger Jené, had applied for bankruptcy for the partial company StG in July. The regular bankruptcy proceedings will be opened next week, but the company continues: “The creditor committee has agreed that the operation of Segula Technologies GmbH, i.e. the test business, will maintain another four weeks. We have the financial means to pay the employees for another month,” said Jené on Thursday of the F.A.Z. Since July, the employees have received bankruptcy money from the employment agency, but the payments end after three months. “We want to take advantage of the chances of completing a deal with one of the three interested investors,” said Jené. “The goal is an asset deal in which the investor takes over part of the assets of Segula Technologies GmbH. Then around a third of the jobs could be preserved.” Establishing a transfer company. The negotiations should also be the question of whether the investor gives money for a transfer company for those employees who are released. “We have partly employees who have never written an application – they started at Opel at 16 and are 51 today. Against this background we do everything we can to set up a transfer company,” said Jené. The Hessian Ministry of Economic Affairs has also been involved. A report by the “Main-Spitze” has appealed to Minister Kaweh Mansori (SPD) in writing to the French owners of the internationally active Segula group to finance a transfer company. covered test center. It will not be easy for you to find something new. Huder also pointed out that after moving to Segula, those affected had already waived references that depending on the wage group, they would currently get 20 to 30 percent less than at Opel.Etwa 700 Opelaners in 2019 to Seguladie Segula Group, which until 2019 only had smaller locations in Germany, had initially announced in the negotiations on the purchase of the test facilities to take over up to 2000 opel workers. Around 700 actually changed the employer. In 2021 the first had to go again, in the course of the Corona crisis Segula replaced positions at the time. Shortly afterwards, the then Segula Germany boss Martin Lange had to clear his post and was replaced by Jené. Last year, he announced that he wanted to create 200 jobs nationwide.
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Lars Kotscha, technician at Segula and confidenceman at IG Metall, does not reproach his superiors. “We had the diesel scandal, then Corona came, I would not say that the management had built crap,” said Kotscha in a phone call with the F.A.Z. The result is still bitter for the workforce: “We are facing a pile of broken glass and do not know how to proceed.” Jené had explained in August that because of the sales crisis in the auto industry, the test facilities for complete vehicles were not sufficiently utilized. The engine test benches look better. In the first years after the takeover of the test center, Segula had benefited from a promise from the Opel mother group Stellantis to provide the neighbors with orders in a never published volume. This agreement went out in 2023. The Opel Stammwerk in Rüsselsheim for Segula remained an important customer-and business at Stellantis is currently going badly. In the first half of 2025, the second largest European car manufacturer after Volkswagen recorded a loss of billions. In the next few weeks, production is to be temporarily exposed in several works, but not in Rüsselsheim. The number of new cars approved in the EU since the beginning of the year is to be temporarily suspended. Citroën, Fiat and Chrysler – the number of admission decreased by nine percent compared to the same period in the previous year.
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