Tag: Martin Winterkorn
Why it is so difficult for BMW and Mercedes managers in the group
Markus Duesmann, Herbert Diess, Wolfgang Bernhard (from left) The three top managers came to VW from outside – and failed. (Photo: Imago, dpa (2)) Munich, Berlin It is a fate…
Why it is so difficult for BMW and Mercedes managers in the group
Markus Duesmann, Herbert Diess, Wolfgang Bernhard (from left) The three top managers came to VW from outside – and failed. (Photo: Imago, dpa (2)) Munich, Berlin They came as a…
Ex-Audi boss Rupert Stadler is ready to confess
Munich, Dusseldorf Rupert Stadler didn’t want to say much. The long-serving CEO of Audi just managed to utter a terse “yes” this Wednesday before the Munich District Court. But this…
Car company raises upper limit for board salaries
Dusseldorf Volkswagen wants to pay its board members better in the future. This emerges from the group’s invitation to the Annual General Meeting in May, which was sent on Monday.…
Shareholder representatives continue to argue over Winterkorn settlement
Martin Winterkorn in January 2017 The shareholders’ protectors complain that the former VW CEO got off too cheaply in the comparison. (Photo: dpa) Cologne More than seven years after the…
Volkswagen in the clutches of justice
Dusseldorf They were half judgments, half homilies. When the lawyers at Volkswagen AG opened their mail in year three of the diesel affair, they had to take a deep breath.…
How Volkswagen gets into the existential crisis
Dusseldorf Two Indians and a Swiss student were the first to find out about Volkswagen. All three were enrolled at West Virginia University, where they worked at the Institute for…
How Volkswagen gets into the existential crisis
Dusseldorf September 18, 2015 was a fateful day for Volkswagen. Just before the weekend, the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent out a “notification of a violation,” according to official…
Ex-Volkswagen boss Winterkorn may have to go to court after all
Former Volkswagen CEO Winterkorn In January 2021, the Braunschweig Regional Court ruled that the proceedings against Winterkorn should be discontinued because of the threat of a significantly higher sentence in…
VW engineer raises allegations against Winterkorn
Braunschweig The fraud process for the VW diesel affair is only two days old – but one of the co-defendants is already giving out violently against the former executive suite.…
Bad start for suspects in the VW Diesel trial: judge intensifies charges
VW employees demonstrate with a poster “Prison instead of bonuses” before the start of the trial in front of the Braunschweig city hall. The Braunschweig Regional Court’s criminal proceedings against…