Effective as of May 1, 2023, Christiane Engel will take over as Spokesperson of the Management Board and Managing Director of the Technology Division of Volkswagen’s site in Osnabrück. Christiane Engel has years of international experience in production and recently headed up Quality Assurance at the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand in Wolfsburg. Her predecessor Jörn Hasenfuß is ending his active career in the Volkswagen Group after more than 36 years and is leaving the company under a retirement program.
Christian Vollmer, Production Board Member of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand and Supervisory Board Chairman of Volkswagen Osnabrück, commented, “Jörn Hasenfuß played a vital role in ensuring that we will continue to produce innovative, attractive models for our customers in Osnabrück in the years to come. We would like to thank him for his commitment and wish him all the best for this new chapter in life. At the same time, I am delighted to welcome Christiane Engel, an internationally experienced executive, as the new Managing Director of the Technology Division and Spokesperson of the Management Board. Christiane Engel has a broad range of experience in Industrial Engineering, Quality Assurance and Production that will ideally supplement that of the other Board members. I firmly believe that thanks to her high level of expertise and her leadership qualities, she is best equipped to successfully master the new challenge.”
As an important production site for the Volkswagen Group, the Volkswagen site in Osnabrück has specialized in the manufacturing of small and very small series. Volkswagen Osnabrück covers the entire automotive value chain at the site: from technical development to tool and plant construction to vehicle production. The T-Roc convertible and the Arteon Shooting Brake are currently manufactured in Osnabrück, and series production of the Porsche Cayman and Porsche Boxster is starting in April 2023.
Volkswagen Osnabrück GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG and forms part of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand.