Volkswagen: Supervisory Board Vice Huber supports Piëch – SPIEGEL ONLINE

If the power struggle with Volkswagen on? Although more than a week after the much-quoted sentence from VW supervisory board, Ferdinand Piëch CEO Martin Winterkorn (“I am to distance Winterkorn”) sit Piëch and Winterkorn on their old places. But otherwise nothing seems as it once was. Winterkorn is considered to be struck. And Piëch also. Ironically, the man who otherwise was considered infallible and could destroy with a set of careers.

now transpires, the patriarch said to have stood in the hastily convened board meeting of the Supervisory Board last Thursday in Salzburg alone. Five against one. All meeting participants – including VW works council boss Bernd Osterloh, Prime Minister of Lower Stephan Weil and Wolfgang Porsche – were on opposite course to Piëch. At the end won the five – and established a requirement that Martin Winterkorn, VW boss remains. And probably will be even advise in February 2016, a contract extension of Endsechzigers.

One such case is in Piëch’s career so far not known. But without the VW grandee’s not the point. To the importance of the 78-year-old for the Group. The employee representatives on the Supervisory Board strives now according to Mitigation: “There is no reason to run the resignation of Dr. Piëch,” said Board Vice Berthold Huber SPIEGEL ONLINE. Piëch have done in the past and the present Great for Volkswagen, the employees and the shareholders. “We fully intend to continue with Dr. Piëch and Dr. Winterkorn the successful path of Volkswagen in the future.”

The former IG Metall leader knows that now it arrives, to close ranks. It was only about a week, could seep into the Piëch published on SPIEGEL ONLINE sentence. What damage has caused criticism in and outside the Group, will only become clear in the coming weeks.

The Supervisory Board members now have the difficult task of ensuring both the staff side as well as the shareholders for peace. Huber says that “the combination of two strong personalities at the helm of Volkswagen” are important – so Winterkorn and Piëch.