NLower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil is almost used to the fact that the Volkswagen Group always bangs when it is the least likely. The 62-year-old social democrat sits on the supervisory board of the largest German industrial group, which has its headquarters in Wolfsburg, east of Hanover, and in whose shares the state holds a stake. In 2015, when the refugee crisis began, the diesel scandal broke out in the company. Now the fourth wave of corona is rolling, government formation is in full swing in Berlin, and a new leadership crisis has been raging in Wolfsburg for weeks.
After VW boss Herbert Diess caused a sensation with arithmetic games about the reduction of up to 30,000 jobs, his whereabouts at the top of the group is in question. The employee bank around the powerful group works council expressed its distrust in Diess. Weil was also upset about the renewed provocation of the manager, who had barely avoided being expelled after an argument last year. A mediation committee has since been looking for solutions, but even after days of crisis talks it was still not clear on Tuesday how things would continue at the top of the group. Because a lawyer who has made inconspicuousness and modesty towards the voters his trademark, a key position in the conflict is assigned.
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