BETTER PARTSWiko is quite
Wolfsburg, 12 October 2015
Martin Winterkorn, former CEO of Volkswagen is said to be willing to give up all the offices in the big VW Group. The reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Currently Wiko has, as it is called internally, still holds the Chairmanship at Audi and VW's truck business. He is also a Supervisory Board at Porsche and acts as head of the Porsche SE holding company. The latter is a financial company, in which the Piëch and Porsche families have pooled their shares in Volkswagen AG. The two family clans are these major shareholders holding the car company. Would Winterkorn continue to act as head of the holding company, would remain its influence on Volkswagen and its new chairman Matthias Müller large.
Office in Bavaria should remain
From the group's circles it is said Martin Winterkorn had analyzed its situation and came to the decision to lay down all other seats. It would have still some formalities to be clarified, but that was more a matter of days, as of weeks. His mandate as a Supervisory Board of FC Bayern München should Winterkorn but retain. This is unlike Audi, shareholder of FC Bayern München AG, not linked to VW. Volkswagen owns the VFL Wolfsburg football club and another is represented there with several members of the Supervisory Board. Winterkorn, however, does not matter there.
Country and union against Wiko
The state of Lower Saxony, the second largest shareholder Volkswagen Winterkorn suggested clearly that he had to resign from all offices. The VW highly influential IG Metall made Winterkorn clear that a " complete withdrawal" is inevitable.
Phaeton as electric vehicle?
Meanwhile, should already have the first projects under scrutiny after the announced austerity measures of the new VW boss Müller. Consolidated council boss Bernd Osterloh sees this speech needs especially when it comes to VW Phaeton. The luxury sedan, which was not necessarily a best seller in the past, should, if at all, purely electrically come. The right technology for an advanced upper-class electric car showed the group already at this year's IAA in Frankfurt with the studies Audi e-tron quattro ( the future SUV Q6 ) and the Porsche mission E, a 600-hp E - sportsman with 500 km range whose batteries will be charged in 15 minutes to 80 percent . ( sw )