Piëch asks Winterkorn to Salzburg: VW power play continues in Austria continued – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Thursday, April 16, 2015

 
 
 

 
 If the leadership crisis at Volkswagen in Salzburg defused? The home of the VW-owner Piëch and Porsche families will host a special meeting of the Supervisory core. It should be about the future of CEO Winterkorn.
 

 
 
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In the power struggle at Volkswagen’s closest circle of the Supervisory Board is looking for a way out of the crisis of leadership. The six-member steering committee convened a special meeting in Salzburg, Austria. They would go to the professional future of VW CEO Martin Winterkorn. The meeting ran in the afternoon.

After dpa information an airplane in the VW mission was launched from Lower Saxony conditions Salzburg. The Bureau is composed out of order after VW patriarch and chairman of the board Ferdinand Piëch was moved away last Friday of winter grain. “I am to distance Winterkorn,” Piech had the “mirror” said and thus ensured turbulence at VW.

The state of Salzburg is home Piëch and there is also the family seat of the Porsches. In addition, in Salzburg, the largest car dealers in Europe, the Porsche Holding Salzburg, located. The company is a Volkswagen subsidiary.

The six-member board is expected to work on a solution for several days smoldering crisis of leadership in the Future of Winterkorn is currently questionable. The Bureau, with its six members of the core of the 20-member Supervisory Board and prepares key strategic decisions of the supervisory body. The sextet form: Ferdinand Piëch (Chairman), Berthold Huber from IG Metall (Vice-Chair), VW group works council boss Bernd Osterloh, the speaker of the Porsche family branch Wolfgang Porsche, Prime Minister of Lower Stephan Weil (SPD) and the Osterloh Vice Stephan Wolf.

Winterkorn says meeting with party tips from

The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (FAZ) reported Piëch was in addition to the members of the Bureau also Winterkorn to this extraordinary meeting asked in his homeland. The “FAZ” According to Winterkorn wants to fight for an extension of his expiring end of 2016 contract.

For being the highest paid Dax CEO could be at the meeting with the process said at least that he will be appearing at a closed meeting the heads of factions of SPD and Union postponed the late afternoon in Göttingen. This was announced by the SPD parliamentary leader Thomas Oppermann. Winterkorn’ve established with participation in board meetings of the Volkswagen Group. A VW spokesman confirmed the cancellation, but did not provide any reasons.

Winterkorn was the successor to the VW patriarch to the Piëch statement traded on the tip of the Supervisory Board. The “mirror” Piëch quoted Besides the distance announcement with the words: “. I strive to get the right person at the head of the Supervisory Board and the Management Board” With these statements is not only winter grain potential change at the top of the control panel in question, but also his continued presence on the board. During winter grain management contract expires the end of 2016, Piëch’s contract has a term until spring 2017th

No open front formation against Piëch

With the employee side of the Supervisory Board and the two representatives of the VW major shareholder Lower Saxony on the capital side has spoken out an alliance for winter grain. However, in the current leadership crisis is not about counting the votes may be killed on the Supervisory Board. Consistent Insiders say that an open front formation in the Supervisory Board Piëch is unlikely.

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The supervisory board chairman and members of the Piëch-owning family is considered the VW -Machtzentrum. Wolfgang Porsche is in the Bureau of the Speaker of the family branch of Porsches, which holds the majority of VW, together with the Piëch. Porsche Ferdinand Piëch had damning quote initially dismissed as “private opinion”. The statement was not matched

Winterkorn’s a good eight years of Aegis -. He in 2007 CEO – laid the deliveries of today’s biggest carmaker in Europe by 64 percent, sales by 86 percent, and operating profit there was even a fourfold increase. On taking office, the Group had 329,000 employees. Today, there are, also thanks to four new brands, almost 600,000 people.

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