Barbara Resch

Barbara Resch was born on January 31, 1975, in Schongau, Bavaria. She began her career in 1991 with an apprenticeship as a communications electronics technician in medical technology at Agfa in Peißenburg.

During her apprenticeship, she took on roles as an active trade unionist of the IG Metall and the Young People and Trainee Council. At the age of 26 in early 2001, she started to work as a union secretary in the IG Metall local office in Weilheim. In 2010, she moved to the IG Metall Schweinfurt, where she was elected Managing Director (2nd authorized representative) in 2014. In May 2016, she became the team leader for collective bargaining policy, initially for the IG Metall district of Bavaria and ultimately for Baden-Württemberg at the end of 2018. Barbara Resch took over the role of IG Metall District Manager Baden-Württemberg in February 2024.

Additionally, she graduated from the University of Hagen as a certified management expert and expanded her management experience at the Institute for Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen and at the Management School of Steinbeis University.

Barbara Resch is a member of the following other legally mandatory supervisory boards and comparable supervisory bodies:

• Mercedes-Benz AG (group mandate)
• Rheinmetall AG (listed)

In addition, she is also a member of many economic and political committees in Germany and the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.