(Der Spiegel) Supervisory boards attack VW Boss: "I am to distance Winterkorn"

Supervisory boards attack VW Boss: "I am to distance Winterkorn"

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn by SPIEGEL information no chance to take over the Chairmanship at the end of his term. The ratio to supervisory board chairman Piech is disturbed. He says: "I am to distance Winterkorn."

Until now, it was generally agreed that Winterkorn in spring 2017 Chairman of the Wolfsburg car company is the latest. But in the Supervisory Board, an increasing criticism of the VW boss. Hans Michel Piëch, who sits on the VW board raises Winterkorn, that he does not get the problems in the US business to grips with the Volkswagen brand Show chartonly low returns while for years about getting into low-cost segment with a "Budget Car "is discussed, but has still not made ​​a decision.


In the Porsche and Piëch families, which together hold 53.1 percent of the common shares of the Volkswagen Group, it is speculated that the Chairman would nominate his wife Ursula as successor. Ferdinand K. Piëch granted these speculations a rejection: "I strive for, that the right people come to the forefront of the Supervisory Board and the Management Board, "he says Der Spiegel," and that are not family members, that's not my wife. " Ursula Piëch is currently member of the VW supervisory board. "More will not make," says Ferdinand K. Piëch. He wanted to "not govern by my wife on."
The decision as to who should be at the forefront of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board in the VW group in future, fall only in 2017, "shortly before I left," says Piëch. The candidates for this are already in the company. These two peak positions of the Group would have to be each occupied by a technician.

In the management of the carmaker is observed for some time that the ratio between the Chairman and the CEO Piëch Winterkorn is disturbed. Ferdinand K. Piëch says told Der Spiegel: "I am to distance Winterkorn."

This was above all because Piëch had worked for decades with Winterkorn, he had taken as his assistant in 1981 to Audi, closely. In March last year Piëch had to the question whether he saw the group on the right track, replied: "Not really." Since then, the problems especially with the Volkswagen brand, which leads Winterkorn personally rather have grown.