Volkswagen-Plossed head of the company, Daniela Cavallo (50), calls for an end to Oliver Blume’s double role as head of Volkswagen and Porsche. “The CEO cannot be a half-day boss in Wolfsburg and spend the rest of the time at Porsche,” said Cavallo on Monday at a company meeting, according to a VW internal report, which is available to the manager Magazin. “This condition must end!” Blume has been running Porsche for ten years and has also been head of the parent company Volkswagen since summer 2022.
At the company meeting in the Wolfsburg Stammwerk, Cavallo also warned more in -house cohesion and a bundling of skills at the automotive group. “There are welcome to exist brand-end-ends and elbows, but only for external competition and not inside,” said Cavallo. Central topics should be anchored on the group board. In doing so, she gave considerations of controlling the group out of a financial holding company: “Otherwise, in production and in the indirect areas, we will struggle to get efficiency – and on the other hand, the billions are thrown out the window!”
According to an insider, the sports car manufacturer Porsche is looking for a successor to flower. Various media had already reported about it. In some shareholders, the double role has been met with violent criticism for a long time. Analysts criticize that they conflicts of interest. Blume itself had repeatedly stated that the double role was not interpreted at all times, but an end date left open.