Tag: Herbert Diess
Uniper rescue, departure of the VW boss: The editor-in-chief’s weekly review
Dusseldorf Good morning dear readers, when it came to solidarity in Europe, then Germany has always played a role that oscillated somewhere between gentle patron and strict big brother. During…
The secret playmaker in the group
Oliver Blume is a passionate soccer player. In the club he played in the libero position. Translated, this is the “free man” in defense who has no direct opponent on…
Herbert Diess has maneuvered himself and Volkswagen into a dead end
Herbert Diess The 63-year-old initiated many projects at the car manufacturer, but he rarely implemented them until the end. (Photo: Bloomberg) In retrospect, the sacking of ex-Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess,…
VW boss Herbert Diess leaves the group – the share falls after hours
Dusseldorf, Wolfsburg Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess surprisingly leaves the Wolfsburg car manufacturer. The 63-year-old had agreed with the supervisory board to leave at the end of August, the VW group…
VW boss Herbert Diess leaves the group – the share falls after hours
Dusseldorf, Wolfsburg Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess surprisingly leaves the Wolfsburg car manufacturer. The 63-year-old had agreed with the supervisory board to leave at the end of August, the VW group…
VW boss Herbert Diess resigns
Herbert Diess Diess has been at the helm of the car group since 2018. (Photo: IMAGO/SEPA.Media) Wolfsburg Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess surprisingly leaves the Wolfsburg carmaker at the end of…
Volkswagen secures chip supply with new partner for years
ID buzz With the new cooperation, VW also protects itself in the event of a new chip crisis. (Photo: Bloomberg) Dusseldorf Volkswagen is getting deeper into the chip business. On…
The deputy editor-in-chief’s weekly recap
There hasn’t been a day in the past week when the turbulence in the markets hasn’t kept us on our toes: The international stock exchanges have had their worst half-year…
Into the future with “Salzgiga” – VW lays the foundation for a model plant for battery production
Salzgitter The VW Group begins building its first battery cell factory in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony. “Salzgiga will become the battery center for the entire group,” said CTO Thomas Schmall on…
Atom and gas are suddenly “green”
money laundering used to be a major problem for the European Union (EU), in the future it will be “greenwashing”. If you’re looking for an example of misnomer, you can…
VW supervisory board meeting – Herbert Diess is now under observation
Herbert Diess The Volkswagen boss cannot afford any delays with the coming software generation. (Photo: Bloomberg) Berlin, Dusseldorf The twenty Volkswagen supervisory board members have a full program for their…
VW supervisory board meeting – Herbert Diess is now under observation
Herbert Diess The Volkswagen boss cannot afford any delays with the coming software generation. (Photo: Bloomberg) Berlin, Dusseldorf The twenty Volkswagen supervisory board members have a full program for their…
Handelsblatt Innovation Week: The editor-in-chief’s weekly review
Good morning dear readers, we have difficult months ahead. The turnaround in interest rates is causing turbulence on the financial markets. With rising bond yields in southern Europe, fears of…
VW, BMW, Mercedes: Software development overwhelms car manufacturers
Dusseldorf, Munich It should be a liberation. Volkswagen wanted to counter the headlines with a major software update for the electric ID models. Group boss Herbert Diess has been criticized…
Germany in an innovation emergency: The editor-in-chief’s weekly review
Good morning dear readers, As a subscriber to the Handelsblatt, you know it anyway: Hardly any other topic is as important to our editorial staff as innovations and the question…
How the car manufacturer wants to become the most popular employer
Volkswagen in Wolfsburg VW is examining part-time models in the plants, in which several employees share a workplace over several shifts. (Photo: imago images/regios24) Dusseldorf Gunnar Kilian has one goal:…
How the car manufacturer wants to become the most popular employer
Volkswagen in Wolfsburg VW is examining part-time models in the plants, in which several employees share a workplace over several shifts. (Photo: imago images/regios24) Dusseldorf Gunnar Kilian has one goal:…
Seat wants to become profitable through Cupra
Dusseldorf The note from Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess could hardly have been clearer: “It’s high time,” he recently wrote about Seat on Linkedin. The Spanish subsidiary must become profitable “as…
The car boss of the future is a programmer
programmer at work In car companies, business economists and mechanical engineers without programming knowledge set the tone. (Photo: action press) For decades, the board members of German car companies had…
Boris Johnson wins but doesn’t win
we begin this short week with two men who have been able to recite Hamlet’s line, “To be or not to be,” to themselves for some time. You can picture…