Well, that's an union magazine. The article you quote puts quite clearly that the biggest link of the list to the USA was that the Carlyle Group was in it.
Oh, how silly of me to equate IG Metall and the SPD / Münterfering - obviously, they are totally at odds.
I guess that even your own media made the incorrect assuptions at the time - even they "knew" immediately to whom he was refering.