a Good decade was Rupert Stadler is the undisputed Chairman of the Board of Audi AG. One could speak of an Era. However, under his leadership, was cheated in Ingolstadt, falsified and manipulated. Stadler’s was at the end with a sober termination of the contract in October of ugly, add to that a months long investigation into prison, because the Prosecutor’s office in the exhaust gas scandal allegations of fraud raised.

in the Audi affair unloaded Bram Schot, the chief post officially on 1. January is a cultural clean slate. Technologically and economically it is far more difficult. Stadler’s legacy impacted the once-proud subsidiary of the VW group immensely. For the past three years, the Diesel crisis keeps the employees in a breath, the implications are enormous: Audi is lagging behind with the admission according to the new emission test procedure, WLTP, thousands of cars were produced to the stockpile, the sales in Europe collapsed, the mood of the staff is bad. The Christmas holidays will be extended for a much-needed tags in the factories.

must set weakened Audi the way for huge investments in future technologies and billions in profits in Wolfsburg. How to succeed right off the bat, white is probably not even the new Chairman of the Board.