Interview with the head of RLB

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Heinrich Schaller 20 years ago and today: In the photo on the left, he had just joined the Management Board of Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich. He has been head of the bank, which operates from Linz, since the end of March 2012.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/RLB OÖ, Markus Wenzel)

The Raiffeisen Banking Group Upper Austria, whose CEO since the end of March 2012 is Heinrich Schaller, serves more than one million customers. Before his birthday on Monday, when the bank manager turns 65, we met him for an interview. A conversation with the RLB-OÖ CEO about his cash reserve, his passion for soccer, conscious digital breaks and his retirement, which is getting ever closer.

The "Bruckner Room" on the third floor of the headquarters of Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich in Linz: Heinrich Schaller has taken a seat here at the large conference table for the interview with the "Krone". In front of him is a cup of coffee, into which he will gradually empty two sachets of sugar during the course of the interview.