For the first time, a woman is at the helm of Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn has been in crisis for a long time. On Monday in Berlin, Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder introduced his choice for Deutsche Bahn's new CEO, Evelyn Palla, and presented his plan to improve Germany's railway. Union representatives of the 235,000 Deutsche Bahn employees have expressed appreciation for Palla herself taking and passing the test to get her locomotive driver's license last year. As a state-owned company, the operator Deutsche Bahn is dependent on subsidies from the federal government, which critics say has invested far too little in infrastructure over the last few decades.