Volkswagen scandal, took place at the summit of the Colossus: incoming Mueller (Porsche) – The Messenger

From our correspondent
 VERONA – Today in Germany the day will be very long. After one of the largest tsunami in the history of the car, it meets the cds of the Volkswagen Group to decide who will be the manager in charge of operating the company in a very difficult phase. A meeting “formal” because it seems that, in restricted form (the presidium that the day before yesterday has taken away the trust to Winterkorn) or enlarged, the CDS has remained always operating to try to remedy the situation complex.
 The appointment may be one, but heads to fall could be many more because it seems that the powers that the company (shareholders, Lower Saxony, unions), driven by the chancellery in Berlin, have decided to turn the page and to entrust the new course to people far away from the scandal. It must remember that even the presidency of cds (after the sudden resignation of Piech in spring) is currently headed by former interim president of the union IG Metall Berthold Huber and that the appointment of Hans Dieter Poetsch (currently head of finance) should yet to be ratified by the Assembly scheduled for November. It is not excluded that the two stories weave themselves together and everything is called into question. The operation guide, which was to Winterkorn, should be entrusted to Matthias Mueller, the current CEO of Porsche.

CAREER
 Mueller is a young, 62 years old, he also studied computer science and is in the orbit of the Volkswagen Group for over 40 years having worked as an apprentice at Audi for 1,500 marks a month in the ’70s. Mueller is a product of man, he has long worked at Ingolstadt and his name is linked to the great success of the A3. Born in the former East Germany and raised in Bavaria, Mueller’s career has been in the shadow of Winterkorn, but has good relations with Patriarch-shareholder Piech who in recent days has definitely recovered power and credibility within the group. It will also be bad luck, but in the end the group, which had grown so much in recent times, had the first big problem just a few months after he marched his visionary director. The other candidates are responsible for other brands because it seems that is not taken into account the external solution. Stadler, for several years before signing home-Audi, Diess the new number one brand Volkswagen has the advantage-disadvantage of being a new employee since recently arrived from BMW. But men from Monaco have always made brilliant careers in Volkswagen. The leaders have always been operating engineers, but since when happened (to make the killer software were technicians) and what could serve in the future (to do well will be key accounts) may have grown up in finance those benefits. Since there is such Stadler, but especially Poesch that, given the seriousness of the situation, it could be hijacked by the Presidency of cds and operation. The dock appear instead finished the super engineers, those who could not not know. Circulate names esteemed engineers, among the most admired in the world: Wolfgang Hatz, technical manager of Porsche, and Ulrich Hackenberg covering the same role at Audi. Neighbors to step back even the current chief engineer of the Volkswagen brand, Heinz-Jakob Neusser, and the number one VW Group America, Michael Horn.