The Federal Government is preparing for negotiations on a sale of Opel: According to correspondence media reports, SPD Secretary of State Matthias Machnig chief negotiator.
State Secretary Machnig (2015)
Thursday, 16.02.2017
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Minister of economic Affairs Matthias Machnig (SPD) is to serve for the German Federal Government as a central point of contact for everything with the planned assumption of the car manufacturer Opel by French competitor PSA Peugeot-Citroën.
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The Chancellery, the participating ministries and the states with Opel locations (Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Thuringia) agreed on this. The news agencies Reuters and the dpa report this staff coincidentally, with reference to unnamed persons in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and at federal and state governments.
The SPD politician should contact for the Opel parent company General Motors 
, for PSA Peugeot Citroën as well as unions and works councils. Machnig is considered an expert in Opel. Already as Minister of Economic Affairs in Thuringia between 2009 and 2013, his special focus was on the car manufacturer with his Eisenach plant. The operation was at that time after the ruptured acquisition of Opel by the Canadian-Austrian automotive supplier Magna as threatened. Task Machnigs was to secure the location in the following restructurings.