On the supervisory board of the Volkswagen AG has a personnel change on the shareholder side. Marianne Heiß (52) laid her mandate on Friday. Your headquarters will now take overRank-Id boss Susanne Wiegand (53). This was announced by the company in Wolfsburg on Friday.
Wiegand has more than 20 years of leadership experience from international listed and family businesses in the defense, mechanical engineering and shipbuilding industry. In November she announced her resignation at the Augsburg tank gearing manufacturer Renk for personal reasons. “After 18 years in leading functions in defense, it’s time for me to do something else”, Wiegand told Manager Magazin at the time.
CEO in another group does not want to become again.
During her time at the top, Wiegand has extensively restructured the traditional company. After taking over the armored transmission manufacturer by the financial investor Triton in 2020, Wiegand initiated a far -reaching realignment from May 2021. After a planned IPO failed at short notice, she finally succeeded in February 2024, To bring renk to the stock exchange.
Wiegand takes over
VW now rely on its know-how in growth strategies, transformation, risk management and compliance, as the company said. In the future, the manager will directly take over the chair of the examination board of the Supervisory Board.
Preduction Marianne Heiß has been a member of the Supervisory Board since February 14, 2018 and belonged to the examination board. The chairman of the supervisory board Hans Dieter Pötsch (74) thanked Hot for the long -term and trusting cooperation.