The preliminary meeting of the employees on the VW supervisory board on June 8th almost turned into a rebellion. When, if not now, CEO Herbert Diess (61) should be thrown out, some asked. Given that he had just accused the controllers of cheating internals and talked about crimesthat “can obviously be assigned”. In front of more than 3,000 executives.
Works council chief Bernd Osterloh (63) calmed down, IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann (64) spoke of a chess game in which one had to think four or five moves forward; even Prime Minister Stephan Weil (61; SPD) came to mediate Lower Saxony as a representative of the major shareholder.