Published: December 9th, 2021,
Last updated: December 9th, 2021
The person of the day at China.Table is not the new German chancellor Olaf Scholz, it is Ralf Brandstaetter. In the future, he will be responsible for China on the VW board of management. His task is to turn around business in the world’s largest car market. There, the market leader could lose its dominant position: For example, the company preferred to install urgently needed chips in Germany rather than in the Far East. Such decisions about the allocation of scarce resources are made at the board level. And until now, CEO Diess was also responsible for China. Brandstaetter is now supposed to „relieve“ Diess and set proper priorities. Christian Domke Seidel analyzes the story behind the staff carousel at VW’s top level.