Herbert Diess has maneuvered himself and Volkswagen into a dead end

In retrospect, the sacking of ex-Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess, which took place on Friday, was evident for a long time: step by step, the 63-year-old was removed from the supervisory board of the largest after quarrels with employees, obvious management errors, clumsy statements and provocations against the supervisory board European carmaker disempowered. In the end he was only responsible for the Cariad software unit.

Diess wanted to be the face of Volkswagen, but he had probably taken that too literally in the end. In the end, Volkswagen was more of a kind of I-AG of the polarizing manager. In the end, it was said in Wolfsburg, that there was no longer a basis for cooperation in view of Diess’ solo efforts.